History of Greek Literature

Preface to the Second Edition xi Introduction to the First Edition xiii The Transmission of Greek Literature 1(6) The Beginnings 7(891) The Homeric Epic The Iliad and Odyssey: Epic Poetry Before Homer 14(5) The Iliad: Materials and Composition 19(13) The Homeric Question 32(9) The Odyssey: Materials and Composition 41(8) The Odyssey: Analytical Theories 49(4) Cultural Levels in the Homeric Poems 53(5) Language and Style 58(7) Gods and Men 65(8) The Transmission 73(6) The epic cycle 79(5) The Homeric Hymns 84(4) Other works attributed to Homer 88(3) The Archaic Period: Hesiod 91(15) Archaic epic after Hesiod 106(1) Early lyric poetry Origins and Types 107(2) Iambos 109(8) Elegy 117(4) Solon 121(7) The Lesbian Lyric 128(20) Choral Lyric 148(6) Folk-tales 154(4) Religious literature 158(3) The beginnings of philosophy 161(7) Mature archaic lyric Theognis 168(4) The Epigram and the Scolion 172(2) Anacreon 174(3) Songwriters on the Mainland 177(4) Choral Lyric 181(27) Philosophy at the end of the archaic period 208(8) The beginnings of science and historiography 216(7) Beginnings of drama: 223(18) Tragedy 223(10) Comedy 233(8) The Flowering of the Greek City State: Beginning and culmination of the classical period: Aeschylus 241(30) Sophocles 271(31) Other forms of Poetry 302(3) Damon and the Theory of Music 305(1) Herodotus 306(22) Other Historians 328(4) Philosophy 332(8) The enlightenment and its opponents: The Sophists and the Beginnings of Rhetoric 340(20) Euripides 360(49) Other Tragic Writers 409(4) Other Poetry 413(4) Political Comedy 417(35) Political Writings 452(3) Thucydides 455(28) The Sciences 483(10) Socrates 493(12) The fourth century up to Alexander: Plato and the Academy 505(42) Aristotle and the Peripatos 547(35) The Art of Rhetoric 582(34) Historiography 616(14) Drama 630(7) Other Forms of Poetry 637(5) The Hellenistic Age Athens: New Comedy 642(23) Attic Prose 665(4) The Philosophical Systems 669(25) The new centres: General Characteristics 694(6) Callimachus 700(18) Theocritus 718(10) Apollonius 728(9) Epigram 737(6) Drama 743(7) Other Poetry 750(14) Historiography 764(19) The Sciences 783(13) Pseudopythagorean Literature 796(3) Jewish-Hellenistic Literature 799(8) The Empire Poetry 807(12) Prose: Plutrach 819(10) The Second Sophistic 829(16) Historiographers and Periegetes 845(12) Prose Romance and Epistolography 857(13) The Second Sophistic in the Later Era 870(4) Philosophy 874(14) The Sciences 888(10) Index 898