Chapter XXIX: Lyric Poetry. — the Seven Wise Men

Age and duration of the Greek lyric poetry. — Epical age
preceding the lyrical. — Wider range of subjects for poetry — new
metres — enlarged musical scale. — Improvement of the harp by
Terpander — of the flute by Olympus and others. — Archilochus,
Kallinus, Tyrtæus, and Alkman — 670-600 B. C. — New metres
superadded to the Hexameter — Elegiac, Iambic, Trochaic. —
Archilochus. — Simonidês of Amorgos, Kallinus, Tyrtæus. — Musical
and poetical tendencies at Sparta. — Choric training — Alkman,
Thalêtas. — Doric dialect employed in the choric compositions.
— Arion and Stêsichorus — substitution of the professional in
place of the popular chorus. — Distribution of the chorus by
Stêsichorus — Strophê — Antistrophê — Epôdus. — Alkæus and
Sappho. — Gnomic or moralizing poets. — Solon and Theognis. —
Subordination of musical and orchestrical accompaniment to the
words and meaning. — Seven Wise Men. — They were the first men
who acquired an Hellenic reputation, without poetical genius.
— Early manifestation of philosophy — in the form of maxims. —
Subsequent growth of dialectics and discussion. — Increase of the
habit of writing — commencement of prose compositions. — First
beginnings of Grecian art. — Restricted character of early art,
from religious associations. — Monumental ornaments in the cities
— begin in the sixth century B. C. — Importance of Grecian art as
a means of Hellenic union. 73-101