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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |||
| § | 5. | Its leading ideas | 271 |
| § | 6. | Defects and excellencies of his historical researches | 272 |
| § | 7. | Style of his narrative; character of his language | 273 |
SECOND PERIOD OF GREEK LITERATURE.
| CHAPTER XX. | |||
| LITERARY PREDOMINANCE OF ATHENS. | |||
| § | 1. | Early formation of a national literature in Greece | 275 |
| § | 2. | Athens subsequently takes the lead in literature and art. Her fitness for this purpose | ib. |
| § | 3. | Concurrence of the political circumstances of Athens to the same end. Solon. The Pisistratids | 277 |
| § | 4. | Great increase in the power of Athens after the Persian war | 279 |
| § | 5. | Administration and policy of Pericles, particularly with respect to art and literature | 280 |
| § | 6. | Seeds of degeneracy in the Athenian Commonwealth at its most flourishing period | 282 |
| § | 7. | Causes and modes of the degeneracy | 283 |
| § | 8. | Literature and art were not affected by the causes of moral degeneracy | 285 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |||
| ORIGIN OF THE GREEK DRAMA. | |||
| § | 1. | Causes of dramatic poetry in Greece | 285 |
| § | 2. | The invention of dramatic poetry peculiar to Greece | 287 |
| § | 3. | Origin of the Greek drama from the worship of Bacchus | ib. |
| § | 4. | Earliest, or Doric form of tragedy, a choral or dithyrambic song in the worship of Bacchus | 289 |
| § | 5. | Connexion of the early tragedy with a chorus of satyrs | 290 |
| § | 6. | Improvement of tragedy at Athens by Thespis | 292 |
| § | 7. | By Phrynichus | 293 |
| § | 8. | And by Chœrilus. Cultivation of the satyric drama by the latter | 294 |
| § | 9. | The satyric drama completely separated from tragedy by Pratinas | 295 |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |||
| FORM AND CHARACTER OF THE GREEK TRAGEDY. | |||
| § | 1. | Ideal character of the Greek tragedy; splendid costume of the actors | 296 |
| § | 2. | Cothurnus; masks | 297 |
| § | 3. | Structure of the theatre | 298 |
| § | 4. | Arrangement of the orchestra in connexion with the form and position of the chorus | 299 |
| § | 5. | Form of the stage, and its meaning in tragedy | 300 |
| § | 6. | Meaning of the entrances of the stage | 302 |
| § | 7. | The actors; limitation of their number | 303 |
