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INDEX. 525 Page MUSIC, its connexion with poetry, especially lyric 149 its history commences with Terpcmder. (See Terpander) ib. the musical scale 151 distinction between the scales, and the styles or harmonies 152 three styles, the Boric, Phrygian, and Lydian ib. musical instruments employed 153 intermediate styles described 154 to whom attributed ib. musical notation and tunes or nomes. . ib. Lesbian school of singers ib. Terpander's inventions enlarged by Olympus. (See Olympus) 156 further improvements by Thaletas. (See Thaletas) other musicians and their improve- ments. Clonas 161 Hierax, Xenodamus, Xenocritus, Po- lymueslus, Sacadas, Alcman, Echem- hrotus - 162 MYRTIS (lyric poetess) 217 celebrated in the youth of Pindar .... ib. NEOPHRON (tragedian), his age, coun- try, &c 382 one of his plays said to be imitated by Euripides in the Medea ib. NEPTUNE (Poseidon), see 11 n. NOME, musical tune 154 ODYSSEY, the— its subject. (See Homer) OLYMPUS, the abode of the gods where situated . OLYMPUS (Phrygian musician) enlarged the system of Greek music . . considered its founder by Plutarch . . his age, &c, obscure — more than one of the name cultivated the enharmonic scale his nomes intended for the flute names of some of them preserved .... introduced a third class of rhythms . . description of the rhythms a mere musician, not a poet ONOMACRITUS (Orphic poet). See Orpheus ORATORY of the Greeks, sketch of its rise and progress Athens its native soil Tin mistocles, not distinguished as an orator /'. rides, his style of speaking no speech of his preserved in writing. . only explanation of this a few expressions preserved Cicero's opinion of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Tli ucydides manner, diction, and idiom of Pericles Antiphon. (See his name) Andocides. (See his name) Lysias. (See his name) 57 28 ib. 156 ib. ib. ib. 157 ib. ib. ib. 158 ib. 235 457 458 ib. ib. 459 ib. ib. 460 461 469 477 469 Page ORATORY, Isoerates. (See his name) 504 ORPHEUS, scanty accounts of 25 connected with the worship of Dionysus 26 not a Thracian, but a Pierian 27 his followers, the Orphics (oi 'Op<pint>i) 231 account of them, the objects of their worship, &c ib. time of their institution difficult to as- certain 232 their poems, tendency of, to humanize and improve ib. Pherecydes, his poems resembling the Orphic 234 reason of the loss of the earlier Orphic poems ib. their connexion with the philosophy of Pythagoras ib. account of several Orphic poets and their works 235 Onomacritus, the most known ib. his works • ib. Cercops, Brontinus, Arignote, Persi- nus, Timocles, Zopyrus ib. the OrfheotelesU ib. spirit and character of the Orphic poems ib. the idea of a creation occurs in them . . 237 Orphic worship of Dionysus. (See Dionysus ib. PARABASIS. (See Chorus) 401 PARMENIDES (Eleatic philosopher), his age and country 251 resemblance of his philosophy to that of Xenophanes ib. account of his doctrines, &c ib. PARNASSUS, where situated 27, 28 PARODY, account of this species of poetry 146 attributed by some to Hipponax .... 147 P.EAN, the song of courage and confidence 19 vernal pseans of Lower Italy 20 paeans of the Pythagoreans ib. mode of singing ib. new subjects introduced into 452 Aristotle's paean on Virtue ib. PERICLES. (See Athens) 280 PHERECYDES (Ionic philosopher) . . 240 one of the earliest prose writers 241 account of him and his works ib. his genealogies ami mythical history.. 263 PHILOSOPHY of the Greeks 239 its opposition to poetry ib. led to prose composition ib. earliest philosophers classed by races and countries 240 the Ionic philosophers, their researches in physics ib. philosophers of the Ionic school — Phe- recydes. (See his name) ib. Thales. (See bis name) 241 the seven Sages ib. Anaximaitd, ,-. (See his name) 242