A HISTORY

9

OF

CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE

св

BY THE

REV. J. P. MAHAFFY, M.A.

FELLOW AND PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin
UTHOR OF "SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE" "PROLEGOMENA TO ANCIENT HISTORY 29

ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

THE PROSE WRITERS

(WITH AN INDEX TO BOTH VOLUMES)

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

1880

13252.12

4D640824

The gift of

Mrs. Ezra Abbot,

of Cambridge,

Jan. 21, 1885:

FLUENCES OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY AND THE

DAWN OF HISTORY IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.

I

WRITERS

III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE RISE OF

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY-THE

SOPHISTS AND SOCRATES

IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF ORATORY AND THE RISE OF ATTIC

PROSE COMPOSITION-GORGIAS, ANTIPHON

53

72

V. THUCYDIDES-ANDOCIDES, CRITIAS

98

VI. ATTIC LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION-LYSIAS AND

XIV. THE LOST HISTORIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, B.C. 429