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CONTENTS.
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§ 3. The little Iliad of Lesches 66
§ 4. The Cypria of Stasinus 68
§ 5. The Nostoi of Agias of Troezen 69
§ 6. The Telegonia of Eugammon of Cyrene 70
§ 7. Poems on the War against Thebes ib.
 
CHAPTER VII.
THE HOMERIC HYMNS.
 
§ 1. General character of the Homeric Hymns, or Proœmia 72
§ 2. Occasions on which they were sung: Poets by whom, and times at which, they were composed 73
§ 3. Hymn to the Delian Apollo 74
§ 4. Hymn to the Pythian Apollo 75
§ 5. Hymn to Hermes ib.
§ 6. Hymn to Aphrodite 76
§ 7. Hymn to Demeter ib.
 
CHAPTER VIII.
HESIOD.
 
§ 1. Circumstances of Hesiod's Life, and general character of his Poetry 77
§ 2. The Works and Days, the Poem on Divination, and the Lessons of Chiron 82
§ 3. The Theogony 87
§ 4. The Great Eoiæ, the Catalogues of Women, the Melampodia, the Ægimius 95
§ 5. The Marriage of Ceyx, the Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis, the Descent of Theseus and Pirithous into Hell, the Shield of Hercules 98
 
CHAPTER IX.
OTHER EPIC POETS.
 
§ 1. General character of other Epic Poets 100
§ 2. Cinæthon of Lacedæmon, Eumelus of Corinth, Asius of Samos, Chersias of Orchumenus ib.
§ 3. Epic Poems on Hercules; the Taking of Œchalia; the Heraclea of Peisander of Rhodes 102
 
CHAPTER X.
THE ELEGY AND THE EPIGRAM.
 
§ 1. Exclusive prevalence of Epic Poetry, in connexion with the monarchical period; influence of the change in the forms of Government upon Poetry 104