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§ | 3. | The little Iliad of Lesches | 66 |
§ | 4. | The Cypria of Stasinus | 68 |
§ | 5. | The Nostoi of Agias of Troezen | 69 |
§ | 6. | The Telegonia of Eugammon of Cyrene | 70 |
§ | 7. | Poems on the War against Thebes | ib. |
CHAPTER VII. | |||
THE HOMERIC HYMNS. | |||
§ | 1. | General character of the Homeric Hymns, or Proœmia | 72 |
§ | 2. | Occasions on which they were sung: Poets by whom, and times at which, they were composed | 73 |
§ | 3. | Hymn to the Delian Apollo | 74 |
§ | 4. | Hymn to the Pythian Apollo | 75 |
§ | 5. | Hymn to Hermes | ib. |
§ | 6. | Hymn to Aphrodite | 76 |
§ | 7. | Hymn to Demeter | ib. |
CHAPTER VIII. | |||
HESIOD. | |||
§ | 1. | Circumstances of Hesiod's Life, and general character of his Poetry | 77 |
§ | 2. | The Works and Days, the Poem on Divination, and the Lessons of Chiron | 82 |
§ | 3. | The Theogony | 87 |
§ | 4. | The Great Eoiæ, the Catalogues of Women, the Melampodia, the Ægimius | 95 |
§ | 5. | The Marriage of Ceyx, the Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis, the Descent of Theseus and Pirithous into Hell, the Shield of Hercules | 98 |
CHAPTER IX. | |||
OTHER EPIC POETS. | |||
§ | 1. | General character of other Epic Poets | 100 |
§ | 2. | Cinæthon of Lacedæmon, Eumelus of Corinth, Asius of Samos, Chersias of Orchumenus | ib. |
§ | 3. | Epic Poems on Hercules; the Taking of Œchalia; the Heraclea of Peisander of Rhodes | 102 |
CHAPTER X. | |||
THE ELEGY AND THE EPIGRAM. | |||
§ | 1. | Exclusive prevalence of Epic Poetry, in connexion with the monarchical period; influence of the change in the forms of Government upon Poetry | 104 |