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INDEX. 521 Page EURIPIDES, the Raging Hercules — composed in the old age of the poet 372 its emplojonent of the eccyclema .... ib. two independent actions ib. intrinsic evidence of the dates of the last two plays 373 the Andromache — its plot and object., ib. political references very prominent .... ib. The Troacles ib. consists of a series of significant pictures 374 epilogue probably lost ib. the Electra — its period * ib. incidents of — murder of JEgisthus and Clytemnestra ib. how treated ib. the Helena — alteration in her story . . 375 how effected — plot of the play ib. the Iphigenia at Tauri — its date .... 376 its beauties — moral worth of the cha- racters ib. friendship of Orestes and Pylades .... ib. the Orestes — its contrast to the preced- ing play 377 its date and the effect it produced .... ib. its plot, and the impression left by it on the mind ib. The Phcenissw — its date ib. its beauties and defects 378 plays brought out by the younger Euripides ib. last days of Euripides spent in Mace- donia ib. The jBacc/i#— probably produced at the court of Archelaus ib. its story — religious opinions of the poet at the close of his life 379 the Iphigenia at Aulis — not extant in a perfect state ib. its plan and object ib. interpolations in 380 his lost plays ib. his Satyric dramas 381 one extant — The Cyclops ib. date of his death ib. shortly before that of Sophocles ib. FABLES— their origin in Greece 142 first appearance in Ilesiod ib. meaning of the term aTvi; ib. employed by Archilochus ib. and by Stesickorus 143 fables of beasts, &c, probably intro- duced from the East ib. the Libyan fables 144 the Cyprian, Cilician, Lydian, and Carian 145 fables of JEsop. (See yEsoji) ib. GNOMIC poems and sentences — of Solon 119 ofPhocylides 120 hexameters best adapted to ib. OOUGTAS. {See Sophists) 463 GRAMMAR, grammatical forma Page GRECIAN history and historians 258 antiquity of Eastern history ib. causes of its existence 259 difference between the Oriental nations and the Greeks ib. causes of the comparative lateness of Grecian history ib. its want conducive to poetry and the fine arts 260 probable antiquity of the art of writing in Greece ib. first rudiments of history ib. the lead taken by the lonians ib. flourishing condition of Miletus ib. Cadmus of Miletus. (See his name) . . 261 Acusilaus. (See his name) ib. Hecatwus. (See his name) ib. Pherecydes. (See his name) 263 Charon of Lampsacus. (See his name) ib. Hellanicus. (See # his name) 264 Xanthus. (See his name) ib. Dionysius. (See his name) 265 the term logographers, to whom applied ib. Herodotus. (See his name) 266 Thucydides. (See his name) 479 HECATiEUS (historian^, his age and country 261 his works — travels and geographical re- searches 262 his maps, genealogies, &c ib. HELICON,"and its" neighbourhood 27 HELLANICUS (historian), his age and country 264 his works ib. HEPH^ISTUS (Vulcan), see 11 n. HERA (Juno), see 11 n. HERACLITUS (Ionic philosopher), his age and country 244 his character and doctrines ib. placed the first principle mfire 245 despised the popular religion ib. rejected its whole ceremonial ib. HERMES (Mercury), see 11 n. Homeric hymn to 75 H iiRODOTUS (historian) 266 his family, birthplace, age, &c ib. residence at Samos, and its cause .... ib. passed the latter years of his life at Th •> rii ib. time of his going th«rc, how fixed. . . . ib. frequently called a Thurian by the ancients 267 his travels, their object and extent. . . . ib. unit to Egypt and Asia in his youth . ib. gradual formation of the plan of his al work ib. his book upon Assyria ib. recited his history at festivals 268 such recitations confined to detached portions ib. his great work not composed till the Peloponnesian war ib. questionable whether he lived to the -,■! oiul period of that war ib.