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INDEX. 517 Pace ARISTOPHANES, error of the poet with respect to Socrates 417 characters, chorus, &c 418 The Wasps — date, object, plan, and characters of 419 one of his most perfect plays ib. the Peace — date and subject of 420 tcdiousness of some of its scenes .... ib. gap in the series after this play ib. The Birds — date of — state of affairs at the time 421 its plan and characters ib. a satire on Athenian frivolity and cre- dulity 423 The Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusw — their date, &c ib. circumstances of the times — their plan, &c 423, 424 The Frogs — its date, description of the play 425 supposed contest between JEschylvs and Euripides „ 425 political references in it 426 Aristophanes the only great Athenian poet who survived the Peloponnesian war „ ib. The Ecclesiazusce — its date, style, and subject „ * ib. its technical arrangement parsimonious 427 the Plutus — its date, transition to the middle comedy ib. the extant play not the earlier one of that name ib. the conception on which it is based . . ib. its language more decent, but less genial than in older plays ib. APJON (lyric poet) 203 his age and country ib. celebrated as the perfecter of the Dithyramb ib. the best player on the cithara of his time 204 introduced the tragic style into the Dith yramb ib. ARISTARCHUS (tragedian), his age, country, &c 383 ARTEMIS (Diana), see 11 n. ASCRA (the dwelling-place of Hesiod) . 80 ASIUS (epic poet), his country, age, and works 102 ATHENA (Minerva), see 11 n. ATHENS, distinguished as a capital in literature and art 276 causes of this, physical and political . . ib. nature of the country, &c ib. purity of the air , 277 political circumstances ib. Solon 278 the Pisisfratids — their dominion, &c. . ib. their patronage of literature and art . . ib. the most excellent works of Athens produced in the midst of political convulsions 279 the time between the expulsion of Hippias and tlio battle of Salamis . 279 Page ATHENS, results of this period in art, &c 279 the Persian war ib. extension of her sovereignty 280 Pericles — his age and administration . . ib. his aim and object ib. shown by the extant works of his time 281 his connexion with literature ib. with Sophocles and Anaxagoras .... ib. his domestic arrangements 282 sentiment attributed to him by Tlmcy- dides ib. gradual decay of Athens ib. its causes and progress ib. qualities by which the Athenians were most distinguished 283 their dexterity in the use of words . . ib. eloquence, fluency, and loquacity .... ib. the Sojihists — their mode of teaching. . 284 Plato's opinion of the Athenians and Pericles ib. the old and new-fashioned Athenians, contest between ib. literature and art not affected during the Peloponnesian war by the cor- ruption of morals 285 BACCHUS (Dionysus), see 11 n. BACCHYLIDES (lyric poet) 213 nephew of Simonides- — his age, &c. . . ib. his style of poetry ib. structure of his verse, metres, &c 214 B ORM US— mournful ditty 19 CADMUS of Miletus (historian), his age, &c 261 subject of his history ib. CALLINUS (elegiac poet) 107 his age, &c, how proved 108 his elegies martial and spirit-stirring. . 109 CARCINUS (tragedian), his family, &c. 383 satirized by Aristophanes ib. CERES (Demeter), see 11 n. CHARON of Lampsacus (historian), his age, &c 263 merely a dry chronicler ib. CHERSIAS (epic poet), his country, age, and works 102 CHiEREMON (lyric poet), his age, &c. 387 deterioration of style in ib. his poem, The Centaur ib. his dramatic productions rich in descrip- tions ib. charming pictures of female beauty . . ib. Aristotle's opinion of him ib. CH(ERILUS (tragedian), his age, &c. .. 294 excelled in the Satyric drama ib. (■MoRAL poems and songs. (See Lyric poetry) '. . . 190 CHORODIDASCALOS— meaning of the term, and to whom applied 37 general employment of in early times in the Peloponnesus 192 in comedy 405 CHORUS, the its origin and character . 22