Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered before the Lowell Institute - Vol. 2

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Contents of the Second Volume iii
• Third Course. Constitutions and Orators of Greece. 1
• Lecture I. General View of Greece. -- Greek Polity. 3
• Lecture Ii. Constitutions of the Heroic Age. -- Slavery. 18
• Lecture Iii. Plato and Aristotle on Slavery. -- Slavery and Christianity. 34
• Lecture Iv. the Early Tyrannies. -- the Spartan Constitution. 52
• Lecture V. Athenian Kings. -- Solon and His Laws. 71
• Lecture Vi. the Constitution of Cleisthenes. 91
• Lecture Vii. the Persian Wars. -- Origin of Attic Eloquence. -- Pericles. 111
• Lecture Viii. Genius and Services of Pericles. -- Athens in the Times of Pericles. 133
• Lecture Ix. the Peloponnesian War. -- the Demos. -- Antiphon. -- Andocides. 146
• Lecture X. the Spartan Ascendency. -- Epoch of Theban Glory. -- Lysias. -- Isocrates. -- IsÆus. -- Lysias and IsÆus Compared. 171
• Lecture Xi. Trial of Socrates. -- Plato's Republic. -- Age of Philip and Alexander. -- Lycurgus. -- Æscrines. -- Hyperides. 196
• Lecture Xii. Demosthenes. 219
• Fourth Course. Modern Greece. 247
• Lecture I. Introduction. -- the Greek Revolution. -- Character of the Modern Greeks. -- Character of the Turks. 249
• Lecture Ii. the Macedonian Ascendency. -- Greece Under the Romans. 272
• Lecture Iii. 293
• Lecture Iv. Greece Christianized. -- St. Chrysostom. -- the Eastern Church. 316
• Lecture V. the Byzantine Empire. -- the Latin Emperors. -- the Dukes of Athens. 340
• Lecture Vi. Turkish Conquest of Constantinople. -- Literature of the Byzantine Period. 360
• Lecture Vii. Byzantine Scholarship. -- Greece Under the Turks. 384
• Lecture Viii. 408
• Lecture Ix. History of the War of Independence. 431
• Lecture X. Greece After the Revolution. -- Accession of King Otho. 455
• Lecture Xi. First Years of Otho's Reign. -- Constitution of 1844. -- Greece Since 1843. 476
• Lecture Xii. Language and Pronunciation. 501
• General Index. 531

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