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INDEX. Page HOMER, too scanty 56 general remarks on the originality of particular books ib. subject of the Odyssey 57 second story interwoven in it 58 has much in common with the Iliad . . ib. but shows a more developed state of epic poetry ib. scheme and plan of the poem 59 offered many opportunities for enlarge- ment and insertions 60 shown to be written after the Iliad . . ib. proofs of this from the descriptions of society and manners, characters of the gods, the management of the lan- guage, &c 61 supposition that the Odyssey was com- pleted by a disciple 62 difficulties in accounting for the compo- sition of these poems, before the use of writing ib. must have been occasionally recited in their integrity ib. not longer than the tragedies, &c. per- formed at one festival ib. recited in scattered fragments by the Rhapsodists 63 indebted to Solon or Pisistratus for compelling the Rhapsodists to recite them in order ib. the Hymns or Proosmia — their general character 72 not connected with the actual ceremo- nies of religion 73 occasions on which they were sung . . ib. by whom composed ib. the hymn to the Delian Apollo .... 74 Pythian Apollo .... 75 • ■ Hermes ib. Aphrodite 76 Demeter ib. his poetry full of archness and humour 130 criticism on it in that respect ib. loss of the Margites 131 that poem ascribed to Homer by Aris- totle ib. its nature as collected from fragments. . ib. the Cercopes ib. the Bat rarh omyomachia, &c 132, 147 his witty and satirical poems contrasted with those of Archilochus 132 HOMERIDS, the 40, 41 the Chian and Samian families 41 HYAIEN2EOS, bridal song 21 described by Homer and Hesiod .... ib. HYM MS, the Homeric. (See Homer) . . 72 HYPORCHEME, {vv'opxnp.*) species of choral dance 23 IALEMUS, plaintive song 18 IAMBIC and Satyrical poetry 128 its contrast with other cotemporaneous poetry 129 created by Archilochus 128 IAMBIC, license afforded to raillery by the festi- vals of Demeter, &c name of Iambus thence derived the Iambyce, musical instrument .... Fables and Parodies, nearly allied to . . Archilochus, Simonides, Solon, Hippo- nax, Ananius. (See those names) IB YCUS (lyric poet) his age and country his poetical style — resembled that of Stesichorus his metres, and the subjects of his poems ILIAD, subject of the, &c. (See Homer) ION (tragedian), his age and country .. a prose author as well as a poet took the subjects of his tragedies from Homer ISOCRATES (orator), his age, country, family, &c pupil of Gorgias and Tisias, also of Socrates belongs essentially to the Sophists .... prevented by bashfulness and weakness from speaking set up a school of oratory most of his orations destined for the school his Areopagiticus, Panegyricus, Phili2> his Panathenaicus, Praise of Helen, Busiris more eminent as a rhetorician than as a statesman or philosopher his style departed from that which was then usual, viz. the antithetical his language his Commiseration Speeches the subjects of his speeches his language different from that of Sophocles and Thucydides deficient in vehemence of oratory .... Plutarch's opinion of his style collection of his works 523 Page 131 132 139 143 205 ib. ib. 206 48 282 ib. ib. 504 ib. ib. 505 ib. ib. 506 507 508 509 ib. ib. 510 511 ib. 512 ib. ib. JUNO (Hera), see 11 n. JUPITER (Zeus), see 11 n. LAMENTS for Hylas and Adonis 19 LANGUAGES affinity of — generally 3 — with the Greek ib. — the Indo-Germanic branch. 4 Classical and Modern effect of on the ear and on the under- standing 6 characteristics of the Greek language., ib. variety of forms, inflexions, and dia- lects in 7 dialects of the several tribes, and their characteristics 8 LASUS (lyric poet), his country, c . . 214 rival of Si a, mi ides • • - • ib. peculiarly a dithyramhic poet 215 instructor of Pindar in lyric poetry . . ib.