Chapter 8

PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

I. The Poems of Hesiod.--"Winter."--FELTON: MURE: THIRLWALL: MAHAFFY.

II. Lyric Poetry. Calli'nus of Ephesus.--"War Elegy". Archil'ochus of Pa'ros--SYMONDS: MAHAFFY. Alc'man.--"Sleep, or Night."--MURE. Ari'on.--Stesich'orus.--MAHAFFY. Alcæus.--"Spoils of War."--AKENSIDE. Sappho.--"Defence of."--SYMONDS: ANTIP'ATER. Anac'reon.--"The Grasshopper."--AKENSIDE.

III. Early Grecian Philosophy. The Seven Sages.--(Maxims).-GROTE. Tha'les, Anaxim'enes, Heracli'tus, Diog'enes, Anaximan'der, and Xenoph'anes. Pythag'oras and his Doctrines.--BLACKIE: THOMSON: COLERIDGE: LOWELL. The Eleusin'ian Mysteries.--VIRGIL.

IV. Architecture. The Cyclo'pean Walls.--LORD HOUGHTON. Dor'ic, Ion'ic, and Corinthian Orders.--THOMSON. Cher'siphron, and the Temple of Diana.--STORY. Temples at Pæs'tum.--CRANCH.

V. Sculpture. Glaucus, Rhoe'cus, Theodo'rus, Dipæ'nus, Scyllis. Cause of the Progress of Sculpture.--THIRLWALL.