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| § | 4. | The perfectors of the old Attic comedy | 397 |
| § | 5. | The structure of comedy. What it has in common with tragedy | 398 |
| § | 6. | Peculiar arrangement of the chorus; Parabasis | 400 |
| § | 7. | Dances, metres, and style | 402 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |||
| § | 1. | Events of the life of Aristophanes; the mode of his first appearance | 405 |
| § | 2. | His dramas; the Dætaleis; the Babylonians | 406 |
| § | 3. | The Acharnians analyzed | 408 |
| § | 4. | The Knights | 412 |
| § | 5. | The Clouds | 415 |
| § | 6. | The Wasps | 419 |
| § | 7. | The Peace | 420 |
| § | 8. | The Birds | 420 |
| § | 9. | The Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusæ | 423 |
| § | 10. | The Frogs | 425 |
| § | 11. | The Ecclesiazusæ; the second Plutus. Transition to the middle comedy | 426 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | |||
| § | 1. | Characteristics of Cratinus | 428 |
| § | 2. | Eupolis | 430 |
| § | 3. | Peculiar tendencies of Crates; his connexion with Sicilian comedy | 431 |
| § | 4. | Sicilian comedy originates in the Doric farces of Megara | 432 |
| § | 5. | Events in the life of Epicharmus; general tendency and nature of his comedy | 433 |
| § | 6. | The middle Attic comedy: poets of this class akin to those of the Sicilian comedy in many of their pieces | 436 |
| § | 7. | Poets of the new comedy the immediate successors of those of the middle comedy. How the new comedy becomes naturalized at Rome | 438 |
| § | 8. | Public morality at Athens at the time of the new comedy | 440 |
| § | 9. | Character of the new comedy in connexion therewith | 443 |
| CHAPTER XXX. | |||
| § | 1. | The Dithyramb becomes the chief form of Athenian lyric poetry. Lasus of Hermione | 446 |
| § | 2. | New style of the Dithyramb introduced by Melanippides, Philoxenus, Cinesias, Phrynis, Timotheus, Polyeidus | 447 |
| § | 3. | Mode of producing the new Dithyramb: its contents and character | 450 |
| § | 4. | Reflective lyric poetry | 452 |
| § | 5. | Social and political elegies. The Lyde of Antimachus essentially different from these | 452 |
| § | 6. | Epic poetry, Panyasis, Chœrilus, Antimachus | 454 |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | |||
| § | 1. | Importance of prose at this period | 456 |
| § | 2. | Oratory at Athens rendered necessary by the democratical form of government | 456 |
| § | 3. | Themistocles; Pericles: power of their oratory | 458 |
| § | 4. | Characteristics of their oratory in relation to their opinions and modes of thought | 459 |
| § | 5. | Form and style of their speeches | 460 |
