CHAPTER X.

_THE LYRIC POETS._

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.--Hyporchem.-- Dithyramb.--Phallic Hymn.--Epinikia.--Threnoi.--Scolia.--Æolian and Dorian Lyrists.--The Flourishing Period of Lesbos.--Sappho.--Alcæus.--Anacreon.--Nationality of the Dorian Lyrists.--Spartan Education.--Alcman.--Arion.--Stesichorus.--Ibycus.--Simonides.--Greek Troubadours.--Style of Simonides.--Pindar.--Later Literary Odes Page 287