Part I |
STATE OF THE NATION |
Chapter One The Polis |
Chapter Two The Polis in Its Historical Development |
I. Kingship |
2. Sparta |
3. Subservient People in Other Poleis |
4. Slavery |
5. The Greek Aristocracy |
6. The Tyranny |
7. Democracy and Its Development in Athens |
8. Democracy Outside Athens |
9. The Enduring Quality of City Populations |
Chapter Three Objective Consideration of the Forms of the State |
Chapter Four The Unity of the Greek Nation |
I. Internecine Warefare and the Forces of National Unification |
2. Greeks and Barbarians |
3. Hellenic Pathos |
Part II |
THE FINE ARTS |
Chapter Five The Awakening of Art |
Chapter Six The Genres of Art |
I. Sculpture |
2. Painting |
3. Architecture |
"Chapter Seven Philosophers, Politicians, and Art" |
Part III |
POESY AND MUSIC |
Chapter Eight The Primeval Age |
Chapter Nine Poesy in Hexameter |
I. The Homeric Epos |
2. Homer and the Greeks |
3. The Homeric Hymns |
4. "Cyclic Poets, Rhapsodes, and Later Epic Poets" |
5. Narrative Poetry of Alexandria |
6. Bucolic Poetry-the Late Epic |
7. Didactic Poesy (Heisod) |
Chapter Ten Music |
Chapter Eleven Poesy in Other than Hexameter Measures |
I. General Remarks |
2. The Elegy |
3. The Epigram |
4. The Iambus |
5. Comment on Lyric; the Aeolic Lyric |
6. The Choral Lyric |
7. The Tragedy |
8. The Old Comedy |
9. The Middle Comedy |
10. The New Comedy |
11. Alexandrian Comedy and Farce |
Part IV |
"ON PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND ORATORY" |
Chapter Twelve Advantages and Obstacles |
Chapter Thirteen The Break with the Myths |
Chapter Fourteen The Art of Oratory |
Chapter Fifteen The Free Personality |
Chapter Sixteen Scientific Investigation |
Chapter Seventeen History and Ethnology |
Glossary |