Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Language and Mythology.--The Five Chief Periods of Greek Literature. The First Period: Homer--Religion and State of the Homeric Age--Achilles and Ulysses.--Second Period: Transition--Breaking-up of the Homeric Monarchies--Colonization--the Nomothetæ--Ionians and Dorians--Devel...
Life of Æschylus.--Nature of his Inspiration.--The Theory of Art in the _Ion_ of Plato.--Æschylus and Sophocles.--What Æschylus accomplished for the Attic Drama.--His Demiurgic...
24. CHAPTER X.The Æsthetic Instinct of the Greeks in their Choice of Metres.--Different Species of Lyrical Poetry.--The Fragments in Bergk's Collection.--Proemia.--Prosodia.--Parthenia.--Pæan...
16. CHAPTER II.The Notion of a Systematic Pantheon.--Homer and Hesiod.--Mythology before Homer.--Supposed Conditions of the Mythopoeic Age.--Vico.--The Childhood of the World.--Goethe's Boyhoo...
22. CHAPTER VIII.Definition of the Term Gnomic.--The Elegiac Metre.--The Age of the Despots in Greece.--Three Periods in Elegiac Poetry: the Martial, the Erotic, the Gnomic.--Callinus.--Tyrtæus....
28. CHAPTER XIII.The Personal Beauty of Sophocles: his Life; Stories about Him.--Athens in the Age of Pericles.--Antique Criticism on his Style: its Perfect Harmony.--Aristotle's Respect for Sop...
18. CHAPTER IV.Helen of Troy--Her Eternal Youth.--Variety of Legends connected with her.--Stesichorus.--Helen in the _Iliad_.--Helen in the _Odyssey_.--The Treatment of Helen by Æschylus.--Eur...
17. CHAPTER III.Unity of _Iliad_.--Character of Achilles.--Structure of the whole Poem.--Comparison with other Epics.--Energy Dividing into Anger and Love.--Personality of Achilles.--The Quarre...
14. CHAPTER I.Language and Mythology.--The Five Chief Periods of Greek Literature. The First Period: Homer--Religion and State of the Homeric Age--Achilles and Ulysses.--Second Period: Transi...
21. CHAPTER VII.The Grandeur of his Fame.--His Versatility of Genius.--His Mysticism.--His Supposed Miracles.--Legends about his Death.--His Political Action.--His Poems.--Estimation in which t...
19. CHAPTER V.The Difference between the Homeric and the Hesiodic Spirit.--The Personality of Hesiod more Distinct than that of Homer.--What we Know about his Life.--Perses.--The Hesiodic Rha...
20. CHAPTER VI.Greek Philosophical Poetry.--The Emergence of Philosophy from Mythology.--The Ionian Sages.--The Pythagoreans.--Anaxagoras.--Democritus.--The Eleatics.--Heraclitus.--Xenophanes...
29. did. The completeness of his self-abandonment appears most vividly inthe dialogue with Creon, upon whose will his immediate fate depends. When Creon, whom he had lately misjudged and treated with violent harshness, comes and greets him kindly, th...
25. CHAPTER XI.His Life.--Legends connected with him.--The Qualities of his Poetry.--The Olympic Games.--Pindar's Professional Character.--His Morality.--His Religious Belief.--Doctrine of a F...
26. x. 22, which contains this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly"That man is happy and song-worthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigor of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength; and who in his...
23. CHAPTER IX.Invention of the Iambic Metre.--Archilochus.--His Parentage and Life.--His Fame among the Ancients.--Ancient and Modern Modes of Judging Artists.--The Originality of Archilochus...
15. mill. The art of writing without having anything particular to say,the sister art of quarrying the thoughts of other people and setting them in elaborate prolixities of style, are brought to perfection. At the same time, side by side with these...
12. CHAPTER XII.Life of Æschylus.--Nature of his Inspiration.--The Theory of Art in the _Ion_ of Plato.--Æschylus and Sophocles.--What Æschylus accomplished for the Attic Drama.--His Demiurgic...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The Personal Beauty of Sophocles: his Life; Stories about him.--Athens in the Age of Pericles.--Antique Criticism on his Style: its Perfect Harmony.--Aristotle's Respect for Sop...
2. CHAPTER II.The Notion of a Systematic Pantheon.--Homer and Hesiod.--Mythology before Homer.--Supposed Conditions of the Mythopoeic Age.--Vico.--The Childhood of the World.--Goethe's Boyhoo...
3. CHAPTER III.Unity of _Iliad_.--Character of Achilles.--Structure of the whole Poem.--Comparison with other Epics.--Energy Dividing into Anger and Love.--Personality of Achilles.--The Quarre...
4. CHAPTER IV.Helen of Troy--Her Eternal Youth--Variety of Legends connected with her.--Stesichorus.--Helen in the _Iliad_.--Helen in the _Odyssey_.--The Treatment of Helen by Æschylus.--Euri...
1. CHAPTER I.Language and Mythology.--The Five Chief Periods of Greek Literature. The First Period: Homer--Religion and State of the Homeric Age--Achilles and Ulysses.--Second Period: Transi...
5. CHAPTER V.The Difference between the Homeric and the Hesiodic Spirit.--The Personality of Hesiod more Distinct than that of Homer.--What we Know about his Life.--Perses.--The Hesiodic Rha...
6. CHAPTER VI.Greek Philosophical Poetry.--The Emergence of Philosophy from Mythology.--The Ionian Sages.--The Pythagoreans.--Anaxagoras.--Democritus.--The Eleatics.--Heraclitus.--Xenophanes...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Definition of the Term Gnomic.--The Elegiac Metre.--The Age of the Despots in Greece.--Three Periods in Elegiac Poetry: the Martial, the Erotic, the Gnomic.--Callinus.--Tyrtæus....
10. CHAPTER X.The Æsthetic Instinct of the Greeks in their Choice of Metres.--Different Species of Lyrical Poetry.--The Fragments in Bergk's Collection.--Proemia.--Prosodia.--Parthenia.--Pæan...
7. CHAPTER VII.The Grandeur of his Fame.--His Versatility of Genius.--His Mysticism.--His Supposed Miracles.--Legends about his Death.--His Political Action.--His Poems.--Estimation in which t...
9. CHAPTER IX.Invention of the Iambic Metre.--Archilochus.--His Parentage and Life.--His Fame among the Ancients.--Ancient and Modern Modes of Judging Artists.--The Originality of Archilochus...
11. CHAPTER XI.His Life.--Legends connected with him.--The Qualities of his Poetry.--The Olympic Games.--Pindar's Professional Character.--His Morality.--His Religious Belief.--Doctrine of a F...