Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Greece/Part IV.—Greek Literature.

Sections
 * The dialects • Pre-Homeric poetry • Songs of the seasons • Hymns • Epos • The Iliad and the Odyssey • The Homeric question • Cyclic poems • Hesiodic epos • The Homeric Hymns • Transition from epos to elegy • Elegy • Iambic verse • Lyric poetry • Æolian school • Dorian school • Simonides and Pindar
 * Origin of drama • Tragedy • Æschylus • Sophocles • Euripedes • Comedy • Aristophanes • Literary prose • Early prose writers • Herodotus • Thucydides • Xenophon • Oratory • The Attic orators • Demosthenes • Philosophical prose. Plato. Aristotle.
 * Character of the creative life in Greek literature • The transition to Hellenism • The Alexandrian period • Poetry • Erudition and science • Summary • The Græco-Roman period • First part 146-30&thinsp;B.C. • Second part 30&thinsp;B.C. to 529&thinsp;A.D. • Departments of prose literature • Verse • The Anthology
 * History • Poetry • Drama • Hymns • Anthology • Prose writings • Commentaries • Grammar • Lexicons • Music and metre • Rhetoric • Philosophy • Theology • Fiction
 * Peculiar nature of modern Greek literature • Works in the ancient language • The modern language • Earliest modern Greek works • Neo-Hellenic • The Greeks of the Renaissance before the fall of Constantinople • The Greeks after the fall of Constantinople • Early works in modern Greek. Romantic poems. • Historical poems • Early popular poems • Early prose works • Literature of the 18th century • Modern era • Poets • Sontsos • Rangabé • Other poets • Drama • History • Theology • Philosophy • Law &c. • Fiction • Female authors • Archæology • Philology • Translations • Authorities
 * Character of the creative life in Greek literature • The transition to Hellenism • The Alexandrian period • Poetry • Erudition and science • Summary • The Græco-Roman period • First part 146-30&thinsp;B.C. • Second part 30&thinsp;B.C. to 529&thinsp;A.D. • Departments of prose literature • Verse • The Anthology
 * History • Poetry • Drama • Hymns • Anthology • Prose writings • Commentaries • Grammar • Lexicons • Music and metre • Rhetoric • Philosophy • Theology • Fiction
 * Peculiar nature of modern Greek literature • Works in the ancient language • The modern language • Earliest modern Greek works • Neo-Hellenic • The Greeks of the Renaissance before the fall of Constantinople • The Greeks after the fall of Constantinople • Early works in modern Greek. Romantic poems. • Historical poems • Early popular poems • Early prose works • Literature of the 18th century • Modern era • Poets • Sontsos • Rangabé • Other poets • Drama • History • Theology • Philosophy • Law &c. • Fiction • Female authors • Archæology • Philology • Translations • Authorities
 * History • Poetry • Drama • Hymns • Anthology • Prose writings • Commentaries • Grammar • Lexicons • Music and metre • Rhetoric • Philosophy • Theology • Fiction
 * Peculiar nature of modern Greek literature • Works in the ancient language • The modern language • Earliest modern Greek works • Neo-Hellenic • The Greeks of the Renaissance before the fall of Constantinople • The Greeks after the fall of Constantinople • Early works in modern Greek. Romantic poems. • Historical poems • Early popular poems • Early prose works • Literature of the 18th century • Modern era • Poets • Sontsos • Rangabé • Other poets • Drama • History • Theology • Philosophy • Law &c. • Fiction • Female authors • Archæology • Philology • Translations • Authorities
 * Peculiar nature of modern Greek literature • Works in the ancient language • The modern language • Earliest modern Greek works • Neo-Hellenic • The Greeks of the Renaissance before the fall of Constantinople • The Greeks after the fall of Constantinople • Early works in modern Greek. Romantic poems. • Historical poems • Early popular poems • Early prose works • Literature of the 18th century • Modern era • Poets • Sontsos • Rangabé • Other poets • Drama • History • Theology • Philosophy • Law &c. • Fiction • Female authors • Archæology • Philology • Translations • Authorities