CONTENTS.
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| § | 17. | Parody, burlesques in an epic form, by Hipponax | 146 |
| § | 18. | Batrachomyomachia | 147 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |||
| PROGRESS OF THE GREEK MUSIC. | |||
| § | 1. | Transition from the Epos, through the Elegy and Iambus, to Lyric Poetry; connexion of Lyric Poetry with Music | 148 |
| § | 2. | Founders of Greek Music; Terpander, his descent and date | 149 |
| § | 3. | Terpander's invention of the seven-stringed Cithara | 151 |
| § | 4. | Musical scales and styles | 152 |
| § | 5. | Nomes of Terpander for singing to the Cithara; their rhythmical form | 154 |
| § | 6. | Olympus, descended from an ancient Phrygian family of flute-players | 156 |
| § | 7. | His influence upon the development of the music of the flute and rhythm among the Greeks | ib. |
| § | 8. | His influence confined to music | 158 |
| § | 9. | Thaletas, his age | 159 |
| § | 10. | His connexion with ancient Cretan worships. Pæns and hyporchemes of Thaletas | 160 |
| § | 11. | Musicians of the succeeding period—Clonas, Hierax, Xenodamus, Xenocritus, Polymnestus, Sacadas | 161 |
| § | 12. | State of Greek Music at this period | 163 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |||
| THE ÆOLIC SCHOOL OF LYRIC POETRY. | |||
| § | 1. | Difference between the Lyric Poetry of the Æolians, and the Choral Lyric Poetry of the Dorians | 164 |
| § | 2. | Life and Political Acts of Alcæus | 166 |
| § | 3. | Their connexion with his Poetry | 167 |
| § | 4. | The other subjects of his Poems | 168 |
| § | 5. | Their metrical form | 170 |
| § | 6. | Life and moral character of Sappho | 172 |
| § | 7. | Her Erotic Poetry to Phaon | 174 |
| § | 8. | Poems of Sappho to women | 176 |
| § | 9. | Hymenæals of Sappho | 178 |
| § | 10. | Followers of Sappho, Damophila, Erinna | 179 |
| § | 11. | Life of Anacreon | 180 |
| § | 12. | His Poems to the youths at the Court of Polycrates | 182 |
| § | 13. | His Love-songs to Hetæræ | 183 |
| § | 14. | Character of his versification | 185 |
| § | 15. | Comparison of the later Anacreontics | 186 |
| § | 16. | Scolia; occasions on which they were sung, and their subjects | 187 |
| § | 17. | Scolia of Hybrias and Callistratus | 189 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |||
| CHORAL LYRIC POETRY. | |||
| § | 1. | Connexion of lyric poetry with choral songs gradual rise of regular forms from this connexion | 190 |
