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CONTENTS. PART I, GREEK CLASSICAL LITERATURE. PABB Preliminaries, . . 11 BOOK L FIRST PERIOD OF TEE EISTOR P OF TEE CLA SICAL-LITERATURE OB GREECE. CELAPT I E .-G R R EEK POETRY BE FORE H O B . Orpheus, Eumolphus, Thamyris, Olen, Chrysothemis, Philammon - The Muses, . 16 CELAPTII. E-E P IC POETRY. Homer-Is he the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey . 1 7 CEAPTER II L Argument of the Iliad, . . 20 C H E I R V. - Dmacr c POETBY. Hesiod, Arctinus of Uetus, Lesches of Lesbos, Agias of Trcezen, Eumelus of Corinth, Strasinus of Cyprus, . . 26 C m V.-ELEGIAC m I I P C O STBY. Callinus of Ephesus, Tyrtseus, Archilochus of Paros, Sionides of Amorgos, Mimnermus of Smyrna, Theognis, Xenophanes of Blea, Phocylides of Miletus, Hipponax of Ephesus, Bsop-Music at that Period in Greece-Terpander, . . 28 BOOK 111. TEE SILVER AGE. CHAPTER I. - POETRY. PAQR SMCTIOIX.-F ables Phsdrus, . . 188 11.-Satires Aulus Persius Flaccus, Decius Junius Juvenal, 190 111.-Eyc Style M. Annsus Lucanus, C. Silius Italicus, C. Valerius Flaccus, P. Papinius Statius, Domitian, . 192 IT.-Epigrams M. Valerius Martialis, . . 19 7 Vcllcius Paterculus, Valerius Maximus, C. Cornelius Tacitus, Suetonius Tranquillus, Q. Curtius Rufus, L. Annsus Florus, . 199 CHAPTER 1 11.-PBOSE, P HILOSOPH AN E D R G S R AMMARIANS. M. Annaeus Scneca, L. Annaeus Seneca, C. Plinius Secundus the Elder, C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus the Younger, M. Fabius Quintilianus, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Scribonius Largus Designatianus, Pomponius Mela, L. Junius Moderatus Columella, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Aulus Gellius, Appuleius, Petronius, Lactantius, . . 204 APPENDIX. Theocritus, Lucian, Plutarch, St. John Chrysostom, . . . 21 1