This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II SOME OF SAPPHO'S CONTEMPORARIES AFTER the heroic or legendary period of Greek history, of which Homer and Hesiod are the chief exponents, and which ended about the beginning of the first Olympiad, there came a period which extended over three centuries, in which the real thought-life of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II SOME OF SAPPHO'S CONTEMPORARIES AFTER the heroic or legendary period of Greek history, of which Homer and Hesiod are the chief exponents, and which ended about the beginning of the first Olympiad, there came a period which extended over three centuries, in which the real thought-life of the Greeks properly speaking begins. The Greek mind is awakening. It is a time of great political disturbances; the heroic monarchy by right divine becomes the oligarchy, the oligarchy the tyranny, and the tyranny is in many cases succeeded by the democracy or constitutional monarchy. Colonization from the mother cities of Greece has begun in Italy, Sicily, Africa, along the Gulf of Lyons, in Asia Minor, and the islands of the ALgean. The law-givers arise; Thebes receives a constitution, and Lycurgos and Solon form the states of Sparta and Athens. The Seven Sages are foremost in diffusing wisdom throughout the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. The epic is being supplanted by the beginnings of lyric, satiric, moral, and philosophic poetry. Prose begins to be cultivated, and the drama has its inception, although the poets are the leaders in the thought of the Greeks until the era of Sokrates. No great light ever appears alone, but there are always lesser lights before and after, like the dawn and twilight of a full day; Sappho was a genius, but she was not the only one of her age, and had many renowned contemporaries. In speaking of them we wish to include those who immediately preceded and followed her, and those who prefigured the life of her day or were the product of it. Sappho's greatest contemporary from AKCHAIC UNDRAFED FIGURES PROM THE CREEK ISLANDS, DATE UNKNOWN, l'KOBABLY 7TH CENT. B.C. Nnv in the British Museum the point of view...
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