Illustrated History of Ancient Literature Oriental and Classical, by John D. Quackenbos, A.M., M.D

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Author

Quackenbos, John D. (John Duncan), 1848-1926

Title

Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical

Original Publication

United States: Harper & brothers,1889.

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images gen erously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Classical literature -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67687

Release Date

March 22, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
2. 2.ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE ORIENTAL AND CLASSICAL
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.INTRODUCTION. — ORIGIN AND RELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGES. — THE ARYANS. — THE SEMITES. — THE TURANIANS. — SYSTEMS OF WRITING. — ANCIENT WRITING MATERIALS. — GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE.
7. 7.PART I. ANCIENT ORIENTAL LITERATURES.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. HINDOO LITERATURE. — THE SANSCRIT LANGUAGE. — SACRED LITERATURE OF THE HINDOOS. — LAW-BOOKS OF THE HINDOOS. — EPIC POETRY. — LYRIC AND DIDACTIC POETRY. — THE DRAMA. — TALES AND FABLES. — HISTORY, GRAMMAR, ETC. — BUDDHIST LITERATURE.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. PERSIAN LITERATURE.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. CHINESE LITERATURE.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. HEBREW LITERATURE. — DAWN OF HEBREW LITERATURE. — GOLDEN AGE OF HEBREW POETRY. — SILVER AGE.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. CHALDEAN, ASSYRIAN, ARABIC, AND PHŒNICIAN LITERATURES. — ASSYRIO-BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. — SPECIMENS OF ASSYRIAN SACRED POETRY. — HITTITE INSCRIPTIONS. — ARABIC LITERATURE. — PHŒNICIAN LITERATURE. — NOTES ON ASSYRIO-BABYLONIAN LITERATURE.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. EGYPTIAN LITERATURE. — EGYPTIAN WRITING. — LITERARY REMAINS. — NOTES ON EGYPTIAN EDUCATION, ETC.
14. 14.PART II. GRECIAN LITERATURE.
15. 15.CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF GRECIAN LITERATURE. — LEGENDARY POETS OF GREECE.
16. 16.CHAPTER II. AGE OF EPIC POETRY. — HOMER AND HIS WORKS. — HESIOD AND HIS WORKS. — POETS OF THE EPIC CYCLE. — NOTES ON GREEK WRITING, ETC.
17. 17.CHAPTER III. — LYRIC POETRY. — THE ELEGY. — THE SATIRE. — ÆOLIC AND DORIC SCHOOLS. — MINOR ELEGIAC AND IAMBIC POETS. — THE SATIRISTS. — MINOR POETS OF THE CHORAL SCHOOL.
18. 18.CHAPTER IV. RISE OF GREEK PROSE. — EARLY PROSE WRITERS.
19. 19.CHAPTER V. GOLDEN AGE OF GRECIAN LITERATURE. — LYRIC POETRY. — DRAMATIC POETRY. — HISTORY. — PHILOSOPHY. — ORATORY. — MINOR DRAMATIC AND LYRIC POETS. — NOTES ON GREEK EDUCATION, ETC.
20. 20.CHAPTER VI. THE ALEXANDRIAN PERIOD. — DRAMATIC POETRY. — PASTORAL POETRY. — POETRY AT ALEXANDRIA. — PROSE WRITERS.
21. 21.CHAPTER VII. LATER GREEK LITERATURE. — THE FIRST CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST. — THE FIRST THREE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES. — LIGHT LITERATURE. — BYZANTINE LITERATURE. — THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. — GEMS OF GREEK THOUGHT. — MINOR WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS.
22. 22.PART III. ROMAN LITERATURE.
23. 23.CHAPTER I. LATIN AND ITS OLDEST MONUMENTS.
24. 24.CHAPTER II. DAWN OF ROMAN LITERATURE. — DRAMATIC POETRY. — EPIC POETRY. — SATIRIC POETRY. — EARLY LATIN PROSE. — MINOR DRAMATIC POETS. — MINOR PROSE WRITERS.
25. 25.CHAPTER III. GOLDEN AGE OF ROMAN LITERATURE. — PROSE WRITERS OF THE CICERONIAN PERIOD. — POETS OF THE CICERONIAN PERIOD. — POETRY OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE. — PROSE WRITERS. — MINOR POETS AND PROSE WRITERS. — NOTES ON EDUCATION, ETC., AMONG THE ROMANS.
26. 26.CHAPTER IV. AGE OF DECLINE. — ERA OF THE CÆSARS (14-96 A.D.). — AGE OF TRAJAN AND THE ANTONINES. — LATER LATIN AUTHORS. — SPECIMENS OF LATER POETRY.
27. 27.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:

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