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516 516 ALC^IUS, his religious poems — hymns to different deities metrical forms used by him metre named after him, the Alcaic ■. ALCMAN (musician and choral poet) 162, his country, age, &c taste and style influenced by his Lydian extraction devoted himself to the cultivation of art his choruses, their subjects, &c his metre, dialect, and poetic tone .... his embateria or marches he invested with grace the rough dia- lect of Sparta difficulty of estimating him from his remains his simple and cheerful views of human life AN ACREON (lyric poet) his country and age sketch of his history and that of his times most of his poetry composed at Samos his style of poetry and subjects show no deep passion of love his love for Eurypyle, and satirical poems c his poetry less reflective than that of . Alcaeus or Sappho his versification and metres the poems attributed to him scarcely any of them genuine of much more modern origin ANANIUS (Iambic poet) greatly resembled Hipponax ANAXAGORAS (Ionic philosopher) .. account of his age, life, &c his treatise on Nature his philosophy accused of atheism ANAXIMANDER (Ionic philosopher), his age and country his treatise on Nature his astronomical researches, his doc- trines, &c ANAXIMENES (Ionic philosopher), his age and country his language, dialect, &c his theory of the formation of outward objects from air ANDOCIDES (orator), his age, family, &c his remaining speeches which not genuine his inferiority to the other celebrated orators ANTIMACHUS (elegiac and epic poet) his age, country, and style his epic poetry his Thebais ANTIPHON (orator and sophist) his history and death made a business of writing speeches. . . his school of rhetoric INDEX. Page Page ANTIPHON, his remaining speeches 471 170 those delivered in court 472 ib. their style 473 171 accuracy in expressions 474 193 their language ib. 193 structure of his sentences 475 his use of figures of speech, &c 476 ib. general qualities of his eloquence. 477 194 APHRODITE (Venus), see 11 n. ib. Homeric hymn to 76 195 Sappho's ode to 175 196 APOLLO — songs at the worship of ... . 24 bards who composed ..... ib. ib. Homeric hymn to the Delian 74 to the Pythian 75 197 ARCHILOCHUS — character of his elegies 113 ib. some epigrams by him remaining .... 127 180 inventor of Iambic poetry 128 ib. opportunities afforded him by the festi- vals of Demeter 133 181 his origin, age, &c ib. 182 his public and private life 134 183 his quarrel with Lycambes, and its ib. results ib. his excellence 135 184 loss of his poems ib. partially imitated by Horace ib. ib. their metrical structure ib. 185 distinction between his Iambic and 186 Trochaic poems 136 ib. other forms of his poetry 137 187 his inventions and innovations in the 143 musical recitation 138 ib. his language and dialect 139 246 made use of fables 142 ib. ARCTINUS of Miletus. (See Cyclic ib. poems) 65 247 ARES (Mars), see 11 n. 248 ARISTOPHANES (comedian) 405 his age, country, &c ib. 242 early devoted to the comic stage .... ib. ib. early pieces produced by others — rea- sons for this 406 243 his first play, the Daialeis — descrip- tion of ib. ib. The Babylonians — date, plan and ob- ib. ject of 407 performed at the great Dionysia .... ib. ib. The Acharnians — date of — earliest of his extant plays 408 477 criticism upon it — plot, &c ib. 478 dramatic complications in — the chorus, ib. &c 409 full description of the play 410 ib. The Knights — date of 412 453 entirely directed against Cleon 413 ib. boldness of the attempt ib. 454 character and description of the play. . ib. 455 chorus, not of imaginary characters .. 414 469 The Clouds — date of — not successful in 470 the contest 415 ib. disquisition on this play 416 471 its real object — its plan 417