1901. Capps, Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago writes
in the Preface: This volume aims to present a concise but complete
survey of the Greek literature of the classical period, extended so
as to include the two branches of poetry, the New Comedy and the
Idyll, which were brought to perfection after the overthrow of
Greek liberty by Alexander. Contents: Epic Poetry. Introduction to
the Iliad; The Main Action of the Iliad; The Odyssey. Homer and
Troy; The Homeric Hymns and Hesiod; The Elegiac, Iambic, and Melic
Poets; Choral Lyric. Pindar; Tragic Poetry. Aeschylus; Sophocles;
Euripides; Comic Poetry. Aristophanes; The Historians. Herodotus;
Thucydides and Xenophon; The Orators. Demosthenes; Philosophical
Prose. Plato; Aristotle; The Lost Writers of the Fourth Century;
and Theocritus and His Age.
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