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CONTENTS.
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| First stage.—§ 2. Alcman; his origin and date; mode of recitation and form of his choral songs | 193 | ||
| § | 3. | Their poetical character | 196 |
| § | 4. | Stesichorus; hereditary transmission of his poetical taste; his reformation of the chorus | 197 |
| § | 5. | Subjects and character of his poetry | 199 |
| § | 6. | Erotic and bucolic poetry of Stesichorus | 202 |
| § | 7. | Arion. The dithyramb raised to a regular choral song | 203 |
| Second stage.—§ 8. Life of Ibycus; his imitation of Stesichorus | 205 | ||
| § | 9. | Erotic tendency of his poetry | 206 |
| § | 10. | Life of Simonides | 207 |
| § | 11. | Variety and ingenuity of his poetical powers. Comparison of his Epinikia with those of Pindar | 209 |
| § | 12. | Characteristics of his style | 212 |
| § | 13. | Lyric poetry of Bacchylides, imitated from that of Simonides | 213 |
| § | 14. | Parties among the lyric poets; rivalry of Lasus, Timocreon, and Pindar with Simonides | 214 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |||
| PINDAR. | |||
| § | 1. | Pindar's descent; his early training in poetry and music | 216 |
| § | 2. | Exercise of his art; his independent position with respect to the Greek princes and republics | 218 |
| § | 3. | Kinds of poetry cultivated by him | 220 |
| § | 4. | His Epinikia; their origin and objects | 222 |
| § | 5. | Their two main elements; general remarks, and mythical narrations | 224 |
| § | 6. | Connexion of these two elements; peculiarities of the structure of Pindar's odes | 226 |
| § | 7. | Variety of tone in his odes, according to the different musical styles | 227 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |||
| THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY. | |||
| § | 1. | Moral improvement of Greek poetry after Homer especially evident in the notions as to the state of man after death | 229 |
| § | 2. | Influence of the mysteries and of the Orphic doctrines on these notions | 230 |
| § | 3. | First traces of Orphic ideas in Hesiod and other epic poets | 232 |
| § | 4. | Sacerdotal enthusiasts in the age of the Seven Sages; Epimenides, Abaris, Aristeas, and Pherecydes | 233 |
| § | 5. | An Orphic literature arises after the destruction of the Pythagorean league | 235 |
| § | 6. | Subjects of the Orphic poetry; at first cosmogonic | 235 |
| § | 7. | afterwards prophetic, in reference to Dionysus | 237 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |||
| THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS. | |||
| § | 1. | Opposition of philosophy and poetry among the Greeks; causes of the introduction of prose writings | 238 |
