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LEGENDARY GREECE.
LEGENDS RESPECTING THE GODS.
LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN.
Races of men as they appear in the Hesiodic "Works and Days."--The Golden.--The Silver.--The Brazen.--The Heroic.--The Iron.--Different both from the Theogony and from Homer.--Explanation of this difference.--Ethical vein of sentiment.--Intersected by the mythical.--The "Works and Days," earliest didactic poem.--First Introduction of daemons.--Changes in the idea of daemons.--Employed in attacks on the pagan faith.--Functions of the Hesiodic daemons.--Personal feeling which pervades the "Works and Days."--Probable age of the poem. 64-73
LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS.
Iapetids in Hesiod.--Prom?theus and Epim?theus.--Counter-manoeuvring of Prom?theus and Zeus.--Pand?ra.--Pand?ra in the Theogony.--General feeling of the poet.--Man wretched, but Zeus not to blame.--Mischiefs arising from women.--Punishment of Prom?theus.--The Prom?theus of AEschylus.--Locality in which Prom?theus was confined. 73-80
HEROIC LEGENDS.--GENEALOGY OF ARGUS.
Structure and purposes of Grecian genealogies.--To connect the Grecian community with their common god.--Lower members of the genealogy historical--higher members non-historical.--The non-historical portion equally believed, and most valued by the Greeks.--Number of such genealogies--pervading every fraction of Greeks.--Argeian genealogy.--Inachus.--Phor?neus.--Argos Panopt?s.--I?.--Romance of I? historicized by Persians and Phoenicians.--Legendary abductions of heroines adapted to the feelings prevalent during the Persian war.--Danaos and the Dana?des.--Acrisios and Proetos.--The Proetides cured of frenzy by Melampus.--Acrisios, Dana?, and Zeus.--Perseus and the Gorgons.--Foundation of Myc?nae--commencement of Perseid dynasty.--Amphitry?n, Alkm?n?, Sthenelos.--Zeus and Alkm?n?.--Birth of H?rakl?s.--Homeric legend of his birth: its expository value.--The H?rakleids expelled.--Their recovery of Peloponn?sus and establishment in Argos, Sparta, and Mess?nia. 80-95
DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN.
Deukali?n, son of Prom?theus.--Phthi?tis: his permanent seat.--General deluge.--Salvation of Deukali?n and Pyrrha.--Belief in this deluge throughout Greece.--Hell?n and Amphikty?n.--Sons of Hell?n: D?rus, Xuthus, AEolus.--Amphiktyonic assembly.--Common solemnities and games.--Division of Hellas: AEolians, D?rians, I?nians.--Large extent of D?ris implied in this genealogy.--This form of the legend harmonizes with the great establishments of the historical D?rians.--Achaeus--purpose which his name serves in the legend.--Genealogical diversities. 96-105
THE AEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AEOLUS.
THE PELOPIDS.
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