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Hitopadesa. Dramatic
Poetry.--6. History and Science.--7. Philosophy.--8. Buddhism.--9.
Moral Philosophy. The Code of Manu.--10. Modern Literatures of
India.--11. Education. The Brahmo Somaj.
BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE.
1. The Accadians and Babylonians.--2. The Cuneiform Letters.--3.
Babylonian and Assyrian Remains.
PHOENICIAN LITERATURE.
The Language.--The Remains.
SYRIAC LITERATURE.
The Language.--Influence of the Literature in the Eighth and Ninth
Century.
PERSIAN LITERATURE.
1. The Persian Language and its Divisions.--2. Zendic Literature; the
Zendavesta.--3. Pehlvi and Parsee Literatures.--4. The Ancient Religion
of Persia; Zoroaster.--5. Modern Literature.--6. The Sufis.--7. Persian
Poetry.--8. Persian Poets; Ferdusi; Eesedi of Tus; Togray, etc.--9.
History and Philosophy.--10. Education in Persia.
HEBREW LITERATURE.
1. Hebrew Literature; its Divisions.--2. The Language; its Alphabet; its
Structure; Peculiarities, Formation, and Phases.--3. The Old
Testament.-- 4. Hebrew Education.--5. Fundamental Idea of Hebrew
Literature.--6. Hebrew Poetry.--7. Lyric Poetry; Songs; the Psalms; the
Prophets.--8. Pastoral Poetry and Didactic Poetry; the Proverbs and
Ecclesiastes.--9. Epic and Dramatic Poetry; the Book of Job.--10.
Hebrew History; the Pentateuch and other Historical Books.--11.
Hebrew Philosophy.--12. Restoration of the Sacred Books.--13.

Manuscripts and Translations.--14. Rabbinical Literature.--15. The
New Revision of the Bible, and the New Biblical Manuscript.
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE.
1. The Language.--2. The Writing.--3. The Literature.--4. The
Monuments.-- 5. The Discovery of Champollion.--6. Literary Remains;
Historical; Religious; Epistolary; Fictitious; Scientific; Epic; Satirical
and Judicial.--7. The Alexandrian Period.--8. The Literary Condition of
Modern Egypt.
GREEK LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. Greek Literature and its Divisions.--2. The
Language.-- 3. The Religion.
PERIOD FIRST.--1. Ante-Homeric Songs and Bards.--2. Poems of
Homer; the Iliad; the Odyssey.--3. The Cyclic Poets and the Homeric
Hymns.--4. Poems of Hesiod; the Works and Days; the Theogony.--5.
Elegy and Epigram; Tyrtaeus; Achilochus; Simanides.--6. Iambic
Poetry, the Fable, and Parody; Aesop.--7. Greek Music and Lyric
Poetry; Terpander.--8. Aeolic Lyric Poets; Alcaeus; Sappho;
Anacreon.--9. Doric, or Choral Lyric Poets; Alcman; Stesichorus;
Pindar.--10. The Orphic Doctrines and Poems.--11. Pre-Socratic
Philosophy; Ionian, Eleatic, Pythagorean Schools.--12. History;
Herodotus.
PERIOD SECOND.--1. Literary Predominance of Athens.--2. Greek
Drama.--3. Tragedy.--4. The Tragic Poets; Aeschylus; Sophocles;
Euripides.--5. Comedy; Aristophanes; Menander.--6. Oratory, Rhetoric,
and History; Pericles; the Sophists; Lysias; Isocrates; Demosthenes;
Thucydides; Xenophon.--7. Socrates and the Socratic Schools; Plato;
Aristotle.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. Origin of the Alexandrian Literature.--2. The
Alexandrian Poets; Philetas; Callimachus; Theocritus; Bion;
Moschus.--3. The Prose Writers of Alexandria; Zenodotus;
Aristophanes; Aristarchus; Eratosthenes; Euclid; Archimedes.--4,
Philosophy of Alexandria; Neo- Platonism.--5. Anti-Neo-Platonic
Tendencies; Epictetus; Lucian; Longinus. --6. Greek Literature in
Rome; Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Flavius Josephus; Polybius;
Diodorus; Strabo; Plutarch.--7. Continued Decline of Greek
Literature.--8. Last Echoes of the Old Literature; Hypatia; Nonnus;
Musaeus; Byzantine Literature.--9. The New Testament and the Greek

Fathers. Modern Literature; the Brothers Santsos and Alexander
Rangabé.
ROMAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. Roman Literature and its Divisions.--2. The
Language; Ethnographical Elements of the Latin Language; the
Umbrian; Oscan; Etruscan; the Old Roman Tongue; Saturnian Verse;
Peculiarities of the Latin Language.--3. The Roman Religion.
PERIOD FIRST.--1. Early Literature of the Romans; the Fescennine
Songs; the Fabulae Atellanae.--2. Early Latin Poets; Livius Andronicus,
Naevius, and Ennius.--3. Roman Comedy.--4. Comic Poets; Plautus,
Terence, and Statius.--5. Roman Tragedy.--6. Tragic Poets; Pacuvius
and Attius.--7. Satire; Lucilius.--8. History and Oratory; Fabius Pictor;
Cencius Alimentus; Cato; Varro; M. Antonius; Crassus; Hortensius.--9.
Roman Jurisprudence.--10. Grammarians.
PERIOD SECOND.--1. Development of the Roman Literature.--2.
Mimes, Mimographers, Pantomime; Laberius and P. Lyrus.--3. Epic
Poetry; Virgil; the Aeneid.--4. Didactic Poetry; the Bucolics; the
Georgics; Lucretius. --5. Lyric Poetry; Catullus; Horace.--6. Elegy;
Tibullus; Propertius; Ovid.--7. Oratory and Philosophy; Cicero.--8.
History; J. Caesar; Sallust; Livy.--9. Other Prose Writers.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. Decline of Roman Literature.--2. Fable;
Phaedrus.--3. Satire and Epigram; Persius, Juvenal, Martial.--4.
Dramatic Literature; the Tragedies of Seneca.--5. Epic Poetry; Lucan;
Silius Italicus; Valerius Flaccus; P. Statius.--6. History; Paterculus;
Tacitus; Suetonius; Q. Curtius; Valerius Maximus.--7. Rhetoric and
Eloquence; Quintilian; Pliny the Younger.--8. Philosophy and Science;
Seneca; Pliny the Elder; Celsus; P. Mela; Columella; Frontinus.--9.
Roman Literature from Hadrian to Theodoric; Claudian; Eutropius; A.
Marcellinus; S. Sulpicius; Gellius; Macrobius; L. Apuleius; Boethius:
the Latin Fathers.--10. Roman Jurisprudence.
ARABIAN LITERATURE.
1. European Literature in the Dark Ages.--2. The Arabian Language.--3.
Arabian Mythology and the Koran.--4. Historical Development of
Arabian Literature.--5. Grammar and Rhetoric.--6. Poetry.--7. The
Arabian Tales. --8. History and Science.--9. Education.
ITALIAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. Italian Literature and its Divisions.--2. The

Dialects. --3. The Italian Language.
PERIOD FIRST.--1. Latin Influence.--2. Early Italian Poetry and Prose.
--3. Dante--4. Petrarch.--5. Boccaccio and other Prose Writers.--6. First
Decline of Italian Literature.
PERIOD SECOND.--1. The Close of the Fifteenth Century; Lorenzo
de' Medici.--2. The Origin of the Drama and Romantic Epic; Poliziano,
Pulci, Boiardo.--3. Romantic Epic Poetry; Ariosto.--4. Heroic Epic
Poetry; Tasso.--5. Lyric Poetry; Bembo, Molza, Tarsia, V. Colonna.--6.
Dramatic Poetry; Trissino, Rucellai; the Writers of Comedy.--7.
Pastoral Drama and Didactic Poetry; Beccari, Sannazzaro, Tasso,
Guarini, Rucellai, Alamanni. --8. Satirical Poetry, Novels, and Tales;
Berni, Grazzini, Firenzuola, Bandello, and others.--9. History;
Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Nardi, and others.--10. Grammar and
Rhetoric; the Academy della Crusca, Della Casa, Speroni, and
others.--11. Science, Philosophy, and Politics; the Academy del
Cimento,