Greece, Ancient and Modern. Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute Vol. I + II [2 B�e].

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly discolored. Small abrasions. Overall very good. - Leicht gebr�t, Einband leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut. - Contents: Vol 1: -- FIRST COURSE. -- THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND POETRY. -- The Origin of Language -- Classification of Languages -- The Indo-European Languages. � The Origin of Writing IV Alphabetic Wbiting.�Primeval Literature of the East V. The Earliest Greek Poetry. � The Homeric Poems -- Homer and the Iliad . -- The Odyssey. � The Batbachomyomachia -- The Homeric Hymns. � Hesiod. � Greek Music . -- IIonian Lyric Poetry -- AEolian and Dorian Lyric Poetry . -- Pindar. � The Greek Drama. � jEschylus -- Euripides. � Sophocles. � Aristophanes -- The Later Greek Drama. � Decline of Letters. � The Alexandrian Period. The Byzantine Period. � Modern Greek Poetry -- SECOND COURSE. -- THE LIFE OF GREECE. -- Hellas and the Hellenes -- Outline View of Hellenic Culture . ill The Decline of Hellas. � Rural Life in Greece . -- Roads. � Houses. �Furniture. � Marriage. � Xenophon�s Economicus -- Household Expenses. � Occupations. � Food. � Feasts.� Markets . -- Dress. � Armor. � Artistical Drapery. � Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce . -- Dorian Manners and Customs. � Clubs. � Provision fob the Poor. � The Medical Profession . -- Education . -- General Culture. � Worship. � Divination. � Oracles . -- Temples. � State of Religious Belief.�Philosophers.� Funeral Rites and Monuments. � Belief concerning a Future Life. � Wills . -- Government . -- Literature. �* The Theatre -- Vol 2: -- THIRD COURSE. -- CONSTITUTIONS AND ORATORS OF GREECE. -- Lecture -- General View of Greece. � Greek Polity -- Constitutions of the Heroic Age -- Slavery . -- Plato and Aristotle on Slavery. � Slavery and Christianity -- The early Tyrannies. � The Spartan Constitution -- Athenian Kings. � Solon and his Laws -- The Constitution of Cleisthenes -- The Persian Wars. � Origin of Attic Eloquence. � Pericles -- Genius and Services of Pericles. � Athens in the Times of Pericles -- The Peloponnesian War. � The Demos. � Antiphon. � Andocides -- The Spartan Ascendency. � Epoch of Theban Glory.� Lysias. � Isocrates. � Isjecs. � Lysias and Isaeus compared -- Trial of Socrates. � Plato�s Republic. � Age of Philip and Alexander. � Lycurgus. � Eschines. � Hyperides -- Demosthenes -- FOURTH COURSE. -- MODERN GREECE. -- Introduction. � The Greek Revolution. � Character of the Modern Greeks. � Character of the Turks -- The Macedonian Ascendency. � Greece under the Romans -- From Constantine to the Byzantine Period . -- Greece Christianized. � St. Chrysostom.�The Eastern Church . -- The Byzantine Empire.�The Latin Emperors. � The Dukes of Athens . -- Turkish Conquest of Constantinople. � Literature of the Byzantine Period . -- Byzantine Scholarship. � Greece under the Turks -- The Greek Revolution -- History of the War of Independence -- Greece after the Revolution. � Ascension of King Otho -- First Years of Otho�s Rekn.� Constitution of 1844. � Greece since 1843 -- Language and Pronunciation. � Education. � Literature.� Poetry.�Adventures of Travel .