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CONTENTS
| The Wiser Part | 61 |
| To a Swallow | 62 |
| Love's Assault | 62 |
| The Pet Dove | 63 |
| The Portrait | 65 |
| Drinking Song | 66 |
| Music and Love | 67 |
| Nature's Gifts | 68 |
| SIMONIDES OF CEOS. | |
| Introductory Note | 69 |
| Danaë and her Babe adrift. Symonds | 70 |
| On those who died at Thermopylae. Sterling | 71 |
| PINDAR. | |
| Introductory Note | 72 |
| First Pythian Ode. West | 74 |
| From Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Myers | 82 |
| AESCHYLUS. | |
| Introductory Note | 85 |
| Prometheus Bound. Mrs. Browning | 88 |
| SOPHOCLES. | |
| Introductory Note | 136 |
| Antigone. Plumptre | 138 |
| EURIPIDES. | |
| Introductory Note | 191 |
| Heracles. Browning. | |
| The Fate of Heracles | 193 |
| The Madness of Heracles | 197 |
| Alcestis. Browning | 201 |
| ARISTOPHANES. | |
| Introductory Note | 249 |
| The Birds. Frere | 251 |
| The Frogs. Frere | 286 |
| HERODOTUS. | |
| Introductory Note | 292 |
| Extracts from the History. Rawlinson. | |
| The Taking of Babylon | 293 |
| Persian Customs | 295 |
| The Nile | 297 |
| Egyptian Customs | 304 |
| Crocodiles and the Hippopotamus | 306 |
| Sesostris | 308 |
| The Pyramid of Cheops | 312 |
| The Battle of Marathon | 314 |
| THUCYDIDES. | |
| Introductory Note | 319 |
