Volume 1

Studies of the Greek poets / by John Addington Symonds.

  • John Addington Symonds
Date:
1877-1879
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Credit: Studies of the Greek poets / by John Addington Symonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE PERIODS OF GREEK LITERATURE. p. Language and Mythology.—The Five Chief Periods of Greek Lite- rature.—The First Period ; Homer—Religion and State of the Homeric Age—Achilles and Ulysses.—Second Period : Tran- sition—Breaking up of the Homeric Monarchies—Colonization— the Nomothetse—Ionians and Dorians—Development of Elegiac, Iambic, Lyric Poetry—-Beginning of Philosophy.—Third Period : Athenian Supremacy—Philosophy at Athens—the Fine'' Arts— the Drama—History—Sparta and Athens—Pericles and Anaxa- goras.—Fourth Period: Hegemony of Sparta—Enslavement of Hellas—Demosthenes—Alexander and Achilles—Aristotle—the Hellenization of the East — Menander — the Orators.— Fifth Period : Decline and Decay—Greek Influence upon the World — Alexandria—the Sciences—Theocritus — the University of Athens—Sophistic Literature—Byzantium—Hellas and Chris- tendom CHAPTER II. EMPEDOCLES. The Grandeur of his Fame.—His Versatility of Genius.—His Self- exaltation.—His Mysticism.—His supposed Miracles.—Legends about his Death.—His Political Action.—His Poems.—Estimation in which the Ancients held them.—Their Prophetic Fervour.— Belief in Metempsychosis.—Purifying Rites.—Contempt for the Knowledge of the Senses.—Physical Theories.—The Poem on Nature.—The Four Elements.—The Sphserus.—Love and Dis- cord.—The Eclecticism of Empedocles
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