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522 522 HERODOTUS, sketch of the general plan of his work. designedly enlarged by episodes instances of unity of his history combined with ex- tent of subject its epic character idea of a fixed destiny — how carried out speeches introduced comparison with the different parts of a Greek tragedy a theologian and poet as well as his- torian his veracity, how far questionable .... his confessions of being deceived by misrepresentations his familiarity with Oriental manners, &c his skill in portraying character impression made by reading his work. . his style, language, and dialect HESIOD, circumstances of his life .... general character of his poetry ...... his manner essentially different from that of Homer his description of the commencement of his poetical career dwelt at Ascra by his own testimony. attempts to connect him by relationship with Homer. nearly cotemporary with Homer did not borrow his epic language from him distinctions between his poetry and that of Homer his Works and Days allusions in that poem to his dissen- sions with his brother Perses allusions to the various kinds of Boeotian industry general tone of the poem his lost poem, the Lessons of Chiron. . his Theogony first gave the Greeks a kind of religious code sketch of the subject and philosophy of the poem beings traced from chaos war with the Titans Zeus and the Olympian gods design of the poem proved to have been maturely considered discrepancies between his genealogy and that of Homer his art of composition not so perfect as Homer s the Theogony interpolated by the Rhap- sodists additions to that poem the procemium — not an original intro- duction to the Theogony was in fact a hymn to the Muses .... critical remarks on these poems treatment of Women by Hesiod and the ancient epic poets INDEX. Page Page HESIOD, 269 other poems of the school of Hesiod — ib. the Great Eoice 96 ib. the JVaupactia ib. the Catalogue of Women 97 271 distinct from the Eoios ib. ib. other poems attributed to Hesiod — ib. scanty remains of 98 ib. the Melampodia, JEgimius, Marriage of Ceyx, &c ib. ib. the Shield of Hercules ib. date of, how proved 99 272 treatment of, distinct from Homer's ib. shield of Achilles ib. these poems connected with lyric poetry ib. ib. tradition respecting the death and burial- place of Hesiod 96 273 his wit and humour compared with that ib. of Homer 130 ib. HIERAX (musician) ...162 274 HIPPONAX (Iambic poet), his country 77 and age 141 78 satires against luxury, &c 142 his personal enemies ib. 79 his language, metres, and style ib. HISTORY. (See Grecian History and ib. Historians) 80 HOMER — his birthplace ;— claims of the Athenians — of Chios 41 81 the claims of Smyrna, how supported 42, 43 ib. of the Cumasans and Colophonians .... 43 traditions as to the foundation of ib. Smyrna ib. other poets connected with Smyrna. . 44 82 mental energies stimulated by the con- ib. flux of different tribes and races in that neighbourhood ib. 83 shown to be of Ionic race and descent. 45 recognized as such by Aristarchus .... ib. 84 other proofs of his Ionian origin ... 46 85 time of his existence according to He- 86 rodotus and the Alexandrine chro- 87 nologists 47 his poems not originally committed to ib. writing 38 how proved — the digamma ib. ib. discrepancies in the catalogues 56 89 gave epic poetry its first great impulse. 47 90 causes of this ib. 91 novelty of his subjects ib. subject of the Iliad 48 ib. scheme, philosophy, and characters of. 49 its plan extends beyond what was neces- ib. sary 50 extension accounted for ib. 92 historical details objected to by Thucy- dides 51 ib. patriotic motives for the extension .... 52 93 inconsistencies in, and presumed addi- tions to 53 ib. cheerful cast of the earlier part as com- ib. pared with the later ib. 94 catalogue of the ships — discrepancies in 54 critical doubts as to genuineness of. . 54, 55 95 catalogue of the Trojans and their allies ib.