Identifier: literatureofworl00rich (find matches)
Title: Literature of the world : an introductory study
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Richardson, William Lee, b. 1874 Owen, Jesse M
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism
Publisher: Boston : Ginn
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thee, How sadly to my words of fear Wouldst thou bend down thy listening ear!But now sleep on, my child! sleep thou, wide sea 1Sleep, my unutterable agony ! O change thy counsels, Jove, our sorrows end! And if my rash intemperate zeal offend,For my childs sake, his father, pardon me ! It is not possible to dwell longer upon the poetry of the lyricperiod. The reader is referred especially to ISIackails remarkablestudy in his volume of Lectures on Greek Poetry, to SymondssThe Greek Poets, and to other similar books. The Attic Age (480-300 b.c.) We have now reached the great fifth century B.C., which was towitness the flowering of the Greek genius in Attica, with its centerin .\thens. The .-Xthenian Greeks were lonians, but they repre-sented a racial blend which rendered them superior to the loniansof the colonies. It is well to remember a few important dates andevents: 492 b.c, the year of the first Persian expedition againstGreece; 404, the year when the Athenian Empire was brought to
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82 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD a close and Athens was taken by the Spartans; the short-livedSpartan political ascendancy which followed the latter event; thesucceeding Thel)an rule; and finally the meteoric career of Philipof IVIaccdon and of his son Alexander the Great (ending with thedeath of the latter in 323 B.C.), constituting one of the wonders ofmilitary history. Greek civilization now dominated all westernAsia and southern Europe. The Persian wars and the Greek civil wars kept Greece in aturmoil during a large part of the Attic Age, though they broughtout the heroic traits in the character of the race. Simonides sangof the men of Tegea, Their choice was to leave their children acity flourishing in freedom, and to lay down their own lives in thefront of the battle. 1 Under Pericles Athens became the teacher and leader of theGreek world. It probably had not more than thirty thousand freeinhabitants, but its contribution during a single generation to thethought and culture of the hum

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