Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)

CHAPTER I.

_THE PERIODS OF GREEK LITERATURE._

Language and Mythology.--The Five Chief Periods of Greek Literature. The First Period: Homer--Religion and State of the Homeric Age--Achilles and Ulysses.--Second Period: Transition--Breaking-up of the Homeric Monarchies--Colonization--the Nomothetæ--Ionians and Dorians--Development of Elegiac, Iambic, Lyric Poetry--Beginning of Ph...