Chapter 2

THE FABULOUS AND LEGENDARY PERIOD OF GRECIAN HISTORY.

I. Grecian Mythology. Value of the Grecian Fables.--J. STUART BLACKIE. The Battle of the Giants.--HE'SIOD Hymn to Jupiter.--CLEAN'THES The god Apollo.--OV'ID. Fancies of the Greek Mind.--WORDSWORTH: LIDDELL: BLACKIE. The Poet's Lament.--SCHILLER. The Creation.--OVID. The Origin of Evil.--HESIOD. What Prome'theus Personified.--BLACKIE. The Punishment of Prometheus.--ÆS'CHYLUS: SHELLEY Deluge of Deuca'lion.--OVID. Moral Characteristics of the Gods, etc.--MAHAFFY: GLADSTONE: HOMER: ÆSCHYLUS: HESIOD. Oaths.--HOMER: ÆSCHYLUS: SOPH'OCLES: VIRGIL. The Future State.--HOMER. 1. Story of Tan'talus.--BLACKIE 2. The Descent of Or'pheus.--OVID: HOMER. 3. The Elys'ium.--HOMER: PINDAR. Hindu and Greek Skepticism.--(Cornhill Magazine).

II. The Earnest Inhabitants of Greece. The Founding of Athens.--BLACKIE.

III. The Heroic Age. Heroic Times foretold to Adam.--MILTON Twelve Labors of Hercules.--HOMER. Fable of Hercules and Antæ'us.--COLLINS. The Argonautic Expedition.--PINDAR. Legend of Hy'las.--BAYARD TAYLOR. The Trojan War. 1. The Greek Armament.--EURIP'IDES. 2. The name Helen.--ÆSCHYLUS. 3. Ulysses and Thersi'tes.--HOMER. (POPE). 4. Combat of Menela'us and Paris.--HOMER. (POPE). 5. Parting of Hector and Androm'a-che.--HOMER. (POPE). 6. Hector's Exploits and Death of Patro'clus.--HOMER. (POPE). 7. The Shield of Achilles.--HOMER. (SOTHEBY). 8. Address of Achilles to his Horses.--HOMER. (POPE). 9. The Death of Hector.--HOMER. (BRYANT). 10. Priam Begging for Hector's Body.--HOMER. (COWPER). 11. Lamentations of Andromache and Helen.--HOMER. (POPE). The Fate of Troy.--VIRGIL: SCHILLER. Beacon Fires from Troy to Argos.--ÆSCHYLUS. Remarks on the Trojan War.--THIRLWALL: GROTE. Fate of the Actors in the Conflict.--ENNIUS: LANDOR: LANG.

IV. Arts and Civilization in the Heroic Age. Political Life of the Greeks.--MAHAFFY: HEEREN. Domestic Life and Character.--MAHAFFY: HOMER. The Raft of Ulysses.--HOMER.

V. The Conquest of Peloponnesus, and Colonies in Asia Minor. Return of the Heracli'dæ.--LUCAN.