Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. The Greeks not eminent in the Useful Arts-Commerce--Su- periority in the Fine Arts-Greek Architecture-Gothic Architecture-Sculpture-Inferiority of the Moderns- CHAPTER VIIL Public games of Greece-Effects on character Manners Poetical composition anterior to prose-Homer-Hesiod- Archilochus Terpander- Sappho-Pindar-Anacreon- The Greek epigram-The Greek comedy, distinguished into the old, the middle, and the new-Aristophanes-Menander -Greek tragedy-Eschylus- Euripides- Sophocles- Mode of dramatic representation-The ancient drama set to music-The Mimes and Pantomimes-Of the Greek histo- rians-Herodotus-Thucydides-Xenophon-Polybius- |