History of Greek Culture

Part I STATE OF THE NATION Chapter One The Polis Chapter Two The Polis in Its Historical Development I. Kingship 2. Sparta 3. Subservient People in Other Poleis 4. Slavery 5. The Greek Aristocracy 6. The Tyranny 7. Democracy and Its Development in Athens 8. Democracy Outside Athens 9. The Enduring Quality of City Populations Chapter Three Objective Consideration of the Forms of the State Chapter Four The Unity of the Greek Nation I. Internecine Warefare and the Forces of National Unification 2. Greeks and Barbarians 3. Hellenic Pathos Part II THE FINE ARTS Chapter Five The Awakening of Art Chapter Six The Genres of Art I. Sculpture 2. Painting 3. Architecture "Chapter Seven Philosophers, Politicians, and Art" Part III POESY AND MUSIC Chapter Eight The Primeval Age Chapter Nine Poesy in Hexameter I. The Homeric Epos 2. Homer and the Greeks 3. The Homeric Hymns 4. "Cyclic Poets, Rhapsodes, and Later Epic Poets" 5. Narrative Poetry of Alexandria 6. Bucolic Poetry-the Late Epic 7. Didactic Poesy (Heisod) Chapter Ten Music Chapter Eleven Poesy in Other than Hexameter Measures I. General Remarks 2. The Elegy 3. The Epigram 4. The Iambus 5. Comment on Lyric; the Aeolic Lyric 6. The Choral Lyric 7. The Tragedy 8. The Old Comedy 9. The Middle Comedy 10. The New Comedy 11. Alexandrian Comedy and Farce Part IV "ON PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND ORATORY" Chapter Twelve Advantages and Obstacles Chapter Thirteen The Break with the Myths Chapter Fourteen The Art of Oratory Chapter Fifteen The Free Personality Chapter Sixteen Scientific Investigation Chapter Seventeen History and Ethnology Glossary