WRIGHT, PRINTER, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

CONTENTS.

VOL. XL.

No.

109. Sketches of various characters in a populous country

110.

town.

Remarks upon anger.

111. Upon the effects of jealousy.

112. The author's explanation of his motives in an

address to his readers upon the conclusion of this

volume.

113. The story of Adelisa and Leander.

114. Abstract of the history of Athens from its origin to the

time of Erecthonius, founder of the Eleusynian

mysteries and Panathenæa.

115. Short account of the mysteries.

continued.

116. The Iliad of Homer described.

continued.

Athenian history

Athenian history

117. Remarks upon the laws of Draco. Life and actions

of Solon.

118. The death and character of Solon.

119. Of the public library founded at Athens by Pisis-

tratus, and of the Alexandrian libraries.

120. Athenian subject continued.

121.

Of the early Greek poets of the names of Orpheus and

Musæus. Of Thamyris and others. Of Hesiod

and the Sybils.

122. Of Homer and his works.

123.

Of the originality of Homer's epic, and of his trans-

lator Mr. Pope. A sample of translation in heroic

metre.

124. Of Hesiod as compared with Homer. The causes of

his popularity. More particular account of the

bards of the name of Musæus. Of Archilochus,

Stesichorus, Epimenides, Aristeas, Simonides, Al-

æus, and others.

No.

125. Fragment of Hermesianax of Colophon, addressed to

his mistress Leontium, describing the amours of the

Greek poets. Of the seven wise men. Of the ca-

lendar of the Greeks and other nations. Of Thales.

A letter from Pherecydes to that philosopher.

126. Of the origin and introduction of the drama.

Of

Thespis's pretensions to be considered as the father

of tragedy.

127. Of the nature and character of the first drama.

128. Athenian history resumed, and continued from the

death of Pisistratus to that of Hipparchus.

129. The same continued, to the expulsion of Hippias.

130. Concluded with the battle of Marathon.

131. The subject of the drama resumed. Of the old tragie

poets Pratinas and Phrynichus.

132. Of the poet Æschylus.

133.

134.

135.

Of Eschylus as compared with Sophocles and Euri-

pides.

Of the tragedies of Eschylus.

Of the Greek comedy. Of Aristotle's definition and

chronology of the first comedy. Of Epicharmus,

considered as the first writer of comedy.

136. Fragments of Epicharmus. Account of Phormis,

Chionides, Magnes, and Dinolochus, the founders

of comedy.

137. Of Cratinas and his comedy in reply to the satire of

Aristophanes. Of Eupolis; his fragments compared

with certain passages in Ben Jonson.

138. Of Aristophanes; his history, character, and works.

139. Aristophanes defended from the criticisms of Plutarch,

also from the account which Ælian gives of his

attack upon Socrates.

140. The motives and grounds for Aristophanes's attack

upon Socrates more fully considered, with some

anecdotes of that philosopher's school and private

character. The dates of the eleven surviving plays

of Aristophanes ascertained.

141. Of the remaining writers of the old comedy; viz.

Amipsias, Plato, Crates, Phrynichus, Pherecrates,

Amphis, Hermippus, Hipparchus, Philonides, and

Theopompus, with their fragments translated.

142.

Of the middle comedy of the Greeks. Anecdotes of

Alexis: fragments of that dramatic poet collected.

143. The same collection continued and concluded. Anec-

dotes of Antiphanes.

No.

144. Collection of fragments from the comedies of Anti-

phanes.

145. Of Anaxandrides. Of Aristophon, with fragments of

that poet. Of Axionicus, Bathon, Chæremon,

Clearchus, Criton, Crobylus, Demoxenus, Deme-

trius, and Diodorus, with fragments of the latter.

Of Dionysius and Ephippus.

146. Fragment of Epicrates. Of Eriphus and Eubulus,

with fragments of the latter. Of Euphron, Heni-

ochus, Mnesimachus, and fragments of each.

147. Fragments of the poet Moschion. Of Nicostratus,

Philippus, Phænicides, Sotades, and Straton, with

various fragments of their respective comedies.

148. Fragments of Theophilus, Timocles, and Xenarchus.

Conclusion of the catalogue of writers of the middle

comedy. General observation upon these poets,

and the author's address to his readers upon this'

portion of his work.

149. Account of the new comedy of the Greeks, and of the

several writers of that æra. Anecdotes of Me-

nander.

150. Various fragments of Menander translated.

151. Anecdotes of the poet Philemon, and a selection of

his fragments.

152. Anecdotes and fragments of Diphilus, of Apollodorus

Gelous, of Philippidas, and of Posidippus. General

remarks upon the conclusion of the subject.

author defends himself against the charge of having

attacked the moral doctrines of Socrates.

The