Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)

Two Conditions for the Development of a National Drama.--The Attic Audience.--The Persian War.--Nemesis the Cardinal Idea of Greek Tragedy.--Traces of the Doctrine of Nemesis in...

Heine's Critique on Aristophanes.--Aristophanes as a Poet of the Fancy.--The Nature of his Comic Grossness.--Greek Comedy in its Relation to the Worship of Dionysus.--Greek Acce...

Sculpture, the Greek Art _par excellence_.--Plastic Character of the Greek Genius.--Sterner Aspects of Greek Art.--Subordination of Pain and Discord to Harmony.--Stoic-Epicurean...

Of our great love, Parthenophil, This little stone abideth still Sole sign and token: I seek thee yet, and yet shall seek, Though faint mine eyes, my spirit weak With prayers un...

Theocritus; his Life.--The Canon of his Poems.--The Meaning of the Word Idyl.--Bucolic Poetry in Greece, Rome, Modern Europe.--The Scenery of Theocritus.--Relation of Southern N...

Alexandrian and Byzantine Anthologies.--Titles of the Lost Plays of Æschylus.--The _Lycurgeia_.--The Trilogy on the Story of Achilles.--The Geography of the _Prometheus Unbound_...

Apparent Accident in the Preservation of Greek Poetry.--Criticism among the Ancients.--Formation of Canons.--Libraries.--The Political Vicissitudes of Alexandria, Rome, Constant...

The Greeks had no past, "no hungry generations trod them down;" whereas the multitudinous associations of immense antiquity envelop all our thoughts and feelings.[274] "O Solon,...

Greek Tragedy and the Rites of Dionysus.--A Sketch of its Origin and History.--The Attic Theatre.--The Actors and their Masks.--Relation of Sculpture to the Drama in Greece.--Th...

Three Periods in Attic History.--The Three Kinds of Comedy: Old, Middle, New.--Approximation of Comedy to the Type of Tragedy.--Athenæus as the Source of Comic Fragments.--Fragm...

Virgil's Mention of this Tale.--Ovid and Statius.--Autumnal Poetry.--Confusion between the Mythical Musæus and the Grammarian.--The Introduction of the Poem.--Analysis of the St...

The History of its Compilation.--Collections of Meleager, Philippus, Agathias, Cephalas, Planudes.--The Palatine MS.--The Sections of the Anthology.--Dedicatory Epigrams.--Simon...

Apparent Accident in the Preservation of Greek Poetry.--Criticism among the Ancients.--Formation of Canons.--Libraries.--The Political Vicissitudes of Alexandria, Rome, Constant...

Three Periods in Attic History.--The Three Kinds of Comedy: Old, Middle, New.--Approximation of Comedy to the Type of Tragedy.--Athenæus as the Source of Comic Fragments.--Fragm...

Sculpture, the Greek Art _par excellence_.--Plastic Character of the Greek Genius.--Sterner Aspects of Greek Art.--Subordination of Pain and Discord to Harmony.--Stoic-Epicurean...

Alexandrian and Byzantine Anthologies.--Titles of the Lost Plays of Æschylus.--The _Lycurgeia_.--The Trilogy on the Story of Achilles.--The Geography of the _Prometheus Unbound_...

Greek Tragedy and the Rites of Dionysus.--A Sketch of its Origin and History.--The Attic Theatre.--The Actors and their Masks.--Relation of Sculpture to the Drama in Greece.--Th...

Two Conditions for the Development of a National Drama.--The Attic Audience.--The Persian War.--Nemesis the Cardinal Idea of Greek Tragedy.--Traces of the Doctrine of Nemesis in...

Heine's Critique on Aristophanes.--Aristophanes as a Poet of the Fancy.--The Nature of his Comic Grossness.--Greek Comedy in its Relation to the Worship of Dionysus.--Greek Acce...

Theocritus: his Life.--The Canon of his Poems.--The Meaning of the Word Idyl.--Bucolic Poetry in Greece, Rome, Modern Europe.--The Scenery of Theocritus.--Relation of Southern N...

The History of its Compilation.--Collections of Meleager, Philippus, Agathias, Cephalas, Planudes.--The Palatine MS.--The Sections of the Anthology.--Dedicatory Epigrams.--Simon...

Virgil's Mention of this Tale.--Ovid and Statius.--Autumnal Poetry.--Confusion between the Mythical Musæus and the Grammarian.--The Introduction of the Poem.--Analysis of the St...