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| § | 2. | Elegeion, its meaning; origin of Elegos; plaintive songs of Asia Minor, accompanied by the flute; mode of Recitation of the Elegy | 105 |
| § | 3. | Metre of the Elegy | 106 |
| § | 4. | Political and military tendency of the Elegy as composed by Callinus; the circumstances of his time | ib. |
| § | 5. | Tyrtæus, his Life; occasion and subject of his Elegy of Eunomia | 110 |
| § | 6. | Character and mode of recitation of the Elegies of Tyrtæus | 112 |
| § | 7. | Elegies of Archilochus, their reference to Banquets; mixture of convivial jollity (Asius) | ib. |
| § | 8. | Plaintive Elegies of Archilochus | 114 |
| § | 9. | Mimnermus; his Elegies; the expression of the impaired strength of the Ionic nation | ib. |
| § | 10. | Luxury, a consolation in this state; the Nanno of Mimnermus | 116 |
| § | 11. | Solon's character; his Elegy of Salamis | 117 |
| § | 12. | Elegies before and after Solon's Legislation; the expression of his political feeling; mixture of Gnomic Passages (Phocylides) | 118 |
| § | 13. | Elegies of Theognis; their original character | 120 |
| § | 14. | Their origin in the political Revolutions of Megara | ib. |
| § | 15. | Their personal reference to the Friends of Theognis | 122 |
| § | 16. | Elegies of Xenophanes; their philosophical tendency | 124 |
| § | 17. | Elegies of Simonides on the Victories of the Persian War; tender and pathetic spirit of his Poetry; general view of the course of Elegiac Poetry | 125 |
| § | 18. | Epigrams in elegiac form; their Object and Character; Simonides, as a Composer of Epigrams | 126 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |||
| IAMBIC POETRY. | |||
| § | 1. | Striking contrast of the Iambic and other contemporaneous Poetry | 128 |
| § | 2. | Poetry in reference to the bad and the vulgar | 129 |
| § | 3. | Different treatment of it in Homer and Hesiod | 130 |
| § | 4. | Homeric Comic Poems, Margites, &c. | 131 |
| § | 5. | Scurrilous songs at meals, at the worship of Demeter; the Festival of Demeter of Paros, the cradle of the Iambic poetry of Archilochus | 132 |
| § | 6. | Date and Public Life of Archilochus | 133 |
| § | 7. | His Private Life; subject of his Iambics | 134 |
| § | 8. | Metrical form of his iambic and trochaic verses, and different application of the two asynartetes; epodes | 135 |
| § | 9. | Inventions and innovations in the musical recitation | 138 |
| § | 10. | Innovations in Language | 139 |
| § | 11. | Simonides of Amorgus; his Satirical Poem against Women | 140 |
| § | 12. | Solon's iambics and trochaics | ib. |
| § | 13. | Iambic Poems of Hipponax; invention of choliambics; Ananias | 141 |
| § | 14. | The Fable; its application among the Greeks, especially in Iambic poetry | 143 |
| § | 15. | Kinds of the Fable, named after different races and cities | 144 |
| § | 16. | Æsop, his Life, and the Character of his Fables | 145 |
