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CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXIX. LTBIC POETRY. THE SEVEN WISE MEN*. Age and duration of the Greek lyric poetry. Epical age preceding the lyrical. Wider range of subjects for poetry new metres enlarged musical scale. Improvement of the harp by Terpander of the flute by Olympus and others. Archilochus, Kallinus, Tyrtseus, and Alkman 670-600 B.C. New metres superadded to the Hexameter Elegiac, Iambic, Trochaic. Archilochus. Simonides of Amorgos, Kallinus, Tyrtaeus. Musical and poetical tendencies at Sparta. Choric training Alkman, Thaletas. Doric dialect employed in the choric composi- tions. Arion and Stesichorus substitution of the professional in place of the popular chorus. Distribution of the chorus by Stesichorus Strophe Antistrophe Epodus. Alkapus and Sappho. Gnomic or moralizing poets. Solon and Theognis. Subordination of musical and orchestrical accompaniment to the words and meaning. Seven Wise Men. They were the first men who acquired an Hellenic reputa- tion, without political genius. Early manifestation of philosophy in the form of maxims. Subsequent growth of dialectics and discussion. Increase of the habit of writing commencement of prose composi- tions. First beginnings of Grecian art. Restricted character of early arti from religious associations. Monumental ornaments in the cities begin in the sixth century B.C. Importance of Grecian art as a means of Hellenic union 73-10) CHAPTER XXX. GRECIAN AFFAIRS DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PEISISTRATUS AND HIS SONS AT ATHENS. Peisistratus and his sons at Athens B.C. 560-510 uncertain chronology as to Peisistratus. State of feeling in Attica at the accession of Peisis- tratus. Retirement of Peisistratus, and stratagem whereby he is rein- stated. Quarrel of Peisistratus with the Alkmaeonids his second retire- ment. His second and final restoration. His strong government mercenaries purification of Deles. Mild despotism of Peisistratus. His sons Hippias and Hipparchus. Harmodius and Aristogeiton. They conspire and kill Hipparchus, B.C. 514. Strong and lasting senti- ment, coupled with great historical mistake, in the Athenian public. Hippias despot alone 514-510 B.C. his cruelty and conscious inse- curity. Connection of Athens with the Thracian Chersonesus and the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. First Miltiades oekist of the Cherso- nese. Second Miltiades sent out thither by the Peisistratids. Pro- ceedings of the exiled Alkmoeonids against Hippias. Conflagration and rebuilding of the Delphian temple. The Alkmseonids rebuild the tem- ple with magnificence. Gratitude of the Delphians towards them they procure from the oracle directions to Sparta, enjoining the expulsion of Hippias. Spartan expeditions into Attica. Expulsion of Hippias, and liberation of Athens 102-12*