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INDEX. 527 Page POETS, Cyclic poets. (See Cyclic poems) .... 64 Epic poets. (See Homer, Hesiod, Minor Epic Poets) POLYMNESTUS (musician) 162 POSEIDON (Neptune), see 11 n. PRATINAS (tragedian), his age, coun- try, &c 295 excelled in the Satyric drama ib. PROSE compositions of the Greeks .... 239 causes of the introduction of prose . . 240 opposition of philosophy and poetry . . ib. writing necessary for prose composition ib. period during which it was most culti- vated 456 three epochs in the history of Attic prose » . ib. first epoch introduced by Athenian po- litics and Sicilian sophistry ib. sketch of this epoch ib. oratory. (See Oratory of the Greeks) 457 began a new career after the Pelopon- nesian war c 496 PROSERPINE (Cora), see 11 n. PROTAGORAS. (See Sophists) 469 PYTHAGORAS (Italic philosopher) .. 256 his personal history, and traditions re- specting him ib. his opinions, how far influenced by his residence 257 his influence exercised by means of lectures and the establishment of Pythagorean associations ib. no authentic account of his writings, nor any genuine fragment ib. works attributed to him forgeries by the Orphic theologers ib. his fundamental doctrines ib. their scientific development subsequent to his time 258 his opinions promoted both theoretically and practically by music ib. RELIGION of the Greeks 11 earliest form not portrayed in the Ho- meric poems ib. earlier form directed to the outward objects of nature 12 similarity to the religions of the East.. 13 deficient in the notion of eternity in their deities 87 also in the idea of a creation 88 improved between the times of Homer and Pindar 229 and by the Orphic association 232 Epim en ides — Abaris — Aristeas — ac- count of 233 Pherecydes — account of 234 sacerdotal sages, their writings, &c. . . ib. RHAPSODISTS -explanation of the term 32 SAGES, the Seven 241 SAPPHO (lyric poetess) 172 her birthplace and age ib. her character ib. Page SAPPHO, cause of imputations upon it at a later period 173 treatment of women amongst the Ionic races and the iEolians ib. strictness prescribed by Athenian man- ners ib. her love for Phaon 174 story of her leap from the Leucadian rock ib. shown to be fictitious 175 her poetry — fragments only remaining, ib. account of her ode to Aphrodite .... ib. her intimacies with women 176 females at Lesbos not confined icithin the house ib. probably her pupils and rivals in poetry 177 fragment of her poetry preserved by Longinus 178 her Epitlialamia or Hymenaeal poems ib. also composed hymns to the gods .... 179 rhythmical construction of her poems . . ib. greatness of her fame ib. appreciated by Solon , . . ib. SATYRIC drama 294 separated from Tragedy by Choerilus . . ib. subjects and characters of 295 separation completed by Pratinas .... ib. SCEPHRUS, plaintive song 18 SCOLION, species of drinking song. (See Lyric poetry) 188 SIMONIDES (elegiac and lyric poet), his country and age 125, 140 stated to have been victorious over Ms- chylus in a contest ib. a great master of the pathetic ib. a celebrated writer of epigrams 127 his Iambic poetry — coarse and severe.. 140 his family and character 208 nature of his lyric poety ib. enjoyed great consideration in his life- time 209 the versatility and variety of his know- ledge ib. the first who sold his poems for money 210 account of his poems — their variety, &c. ib. his epinikia, dirges, &c 211 criticism on his style 212 SOCRATES— unfairly treated by Aristo- phanes 417 SOLON — his character and that of his elegies 117 the elegy of Salamis, account of ib. its effect 118 his elegy cited by Demostlienes ib. his elegies styled Gnomic 119 his Iambic poetry 140 fragments of his Iambics and Trochaics 141 his influence at Athens 278 SOPHISTS (the profession of the) . ..462 essential elements of their doctrines . . ib. Protagoras, his age and country .... 463 banished from Athens for scepticism . . ib. his doctrines ib. Gorgias, his age and country ib.