Funeral Oration of Pericles.--THUCYDIDES.

Comments on the Oration.--CURTIUS.

The Plague at Athens.--LUCRETIUS.

Death of Pericles.--CROLY: THIRLWALL: BULWER.

Character of Pericles.--MITFORD.

II. The Athenian Demagogues.

Cleon, the Demagogue.--GILLIES: ARISTOPH'ANES.

The Peace of Ni'cias.

III. The Sicilian Expedition.

Treatment of the Athenian Prisoners.--BYRON.

IV. The Second Peloponnesian War.

Humiliation of Athens.

Barbarities of the Contest.--MAHAFFY.

CHAPTER XII.

GRECIAN LITERATURE AND ART, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PERSIAN TO THE CLOSE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS (B.C. 500-403).

LITERATURE.

Introductory.

The Era of Athenian Greatness.--SYMONDS.

I. Lyric Poetry.

Simonides.--"Lamentation of Dan'a-e."--MAHAFFY.

Pindar.--"Threnos."--THIRLWALL: PRIOR: SYMONDS: GRAY: POPE: HORACE.

II. The Drama.--BULWER.

1. Tragedy.--Melpom'ene.--AKENSIDE.

aeschylus.--"Death of Agamemnon."--PLUMPTRE: LAWRENCE: VAN SCHLEGEL: BYRON: MAHAFFY.

Sophocles.--OEd'ipus Tyran'nus."--TALFOURD: PHRYN'ICHUS: SIM'MIAS.

Euripides.--"Alcestis Preparing for Death."--SYMONDS: MILTON: MAHAFFY.

The Transitions of Tragedy.--GROTE.

2. Comedy.

Characterization of.

Aristophanes.--Extracts from "The Cloud." "Choral Song from The Birds."--PLATO: GROTE: SEWELL: MILTON: RUSKIN.

III. History.

Hecatae'ns.--MAHAFFY: NIEBUHR.

Herodotus.--"Introduction to History."--LAWRENCE.

Herodotus and his Writings.--MACAULAY.

Thucyd'i-des.--MAHAFFY.

Thucydides and Herodotus.--BROWNE.

IV. Philosophy.

Anaxag'oras: his Death.--WILLIAM CANTON.

The Sophists.--MAHAFFY.

Socrates.--"Defence of Socrates."--"Socrates' Views of a Future State."--MAHAFFY: THOMSON: SMITH: TYLER: GROTE.

ART.

I. Sculpture and Painting.

Phid'ias.--LuBKE: GILLIES: LuBKE.

Polygno'tus.--Apollodo'rus.--Zeux'is.--Parrha'sius.

--Timan'thes.

Parrhasius and his Captive.--SENECA: WILLIS.

II. Architecture.

Introductory.--THOMSON.

The Adornment of Athens.--BULWER.

I. The Acrop'olis and its Splendors.

The Parthenon.--HEMANS.

II. Other Architectural Monuments of Athens.

The Temple of The'seus.--HAYGARTH.

Athenian Enthusiasm for Art.--BULWER.

The Glory of Athens.--TALFOURD.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN SUPREMACIES.

I. The Expedition of Cyrus, and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.--THOMSON: CURTIUS.

II. The Supremacy of Sparta.

III. The Rise and Fall of Thebes.

Pelop'idas and Epaminon'das.--THOMSON: CURTIUS.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE SICILIAN GREEKS.

The Founding of aetna.--PINDAR.

Hi'ero's Victory at Cu'mae.--PINDAR.

Admonitions to Hiero.--PINDAR.

Dionysius the Elder.--PLUTARCH.

Damon and Pythias.--The Hostage.--SCHILLER.

Archime'des.--SCHILLER Visit of Cicero to the Grave of Archimedes.--WINTHROP.

CHAPTER XV.

THE MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY.

I. The Sacred War.--THIRLWALL.

II. Sketch of Macedonia.