G

games, 22–23, 59

geography

of Egypt, 22

of Greece, 22, 25

Gilbert, Sir William, Aristophanes compared to, 84–96

goodness, 181, 183

Gorki, Maksim, 141

Gothic cathedrals, Parthenon compared to, 43

Greece

ancient world compared to, 15, 17, 28

Egypt compared to, 17–19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31

geography, 22, 25

India compared to, 19–20

legacy, 13–14, 15, 21

literature. (see Greek literature) [on this page]

mind and spirit in, 17, 31–35, 42, 202–206

miracle of, 14–15, 43

modern world compared to (see modern world, Greece compared to) [on this page]

mythology, 32–33, 143, 173

people (see Greeks) [on this page]

religion, 32–33, 104, 173–183

Rome compared to, 15–16, 23, 67, 105–106, 203

slavery, 98–100, 168

Greek literature

audience, 82, 85–86, 96

the Bible compared to, 50–52, 156, 200–201

characterization, 192–201

English literature compared to, 45–50, 53, 55

facts in, 47

life knowledge in, 14, 23

metre in, 55–56, 78, 86

Old Comedy, 24, 77, 78, 82, 96–97

religion, 180

style, 162

tragedy (see tragedy)

Greeks

competence as workmen, 163

first Westerners, 15–16

happiness, attitude toward, 182

intellectualists, 16, 25, 27–30, 76

joy of life, 22–25

love of beauty, 66–68, 138–139, 147, 160, 176, 182, 202

love of learning, 30–31, 65, 69–70, 112–113

mysticism alien to, 42

power, attitude toward, 114–115

realists, 48, 67–68, 112–113

war, attitude toward, 119, 154–155, 167–168

wealth, attitude toward, 114, 115, 129, 155

women, 126, 127–128, 170

H

Hamlet, 142

happiness, 182

Hecuba, King Lear compared to, 168, 189–192

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 140

Herodotus, 98–111

Hesiod, 175, 177

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 114

Homer

Greek religion, 173, 175–178

Pindar compared to, 54

Pindar on, 61, 177

rank among epic poets, 14

humanists

Greeks compared to, 28–29

guided by Greeks, 28–29

I

Ibsen, Henrik, 143

"idiot," 137

India

architecture, 42

art, 37–39, 41

the East, representative of, 19–20

mathematics, 20

priests, 20

individualism, 120, 130–137, 186, 204

Isaiah, Euripides compared to, 167, 169

K

Kant, Immanuel, 72

King Lear, 142

Hecuba compared to, 168, 189–192

Kipling, Rudyard, Pindar compared to, 56

L

Lady Macbeth, Clytemnestra compared to, 186–189

learning, Greek love of, 30–31, 65, 69–70, 112–113

Leonidas, 109

literature. See Greek literature [on this page]

M

Macbeth, 140, 142

Macbeth, Oresteia compared to, 149–151

Marathon, 66, 105, 107–108, 116

mathematics, in India, 20

Melos, Athenian treatment of, 122–123

Mesopotamia, 15, 23

Middle Ages

art, 40, 43

mind and spirit in, 35–36, 203

Milton, John

poetic strength, 56

Sophocles compared to, 162–163

mind and spirit

balance between, and art, 35–36, 40, 200–201

balance needed, 21

in early Christianity, 202–203

in East and West, 205

in Egypt, 17

facts related to, 35–36, 202

general and particular same as, 202

in Greece, 17, 31–35, 42, 202–206

in Middle Ages, 35–36, 203

in modern world, 203–206

in nineteenth century, 205

in Renaissance Italy, 203

in Rome, 203

simplification (abstraction) and individualization same as, 201

censoriousness vs. freedom of speech, 96–97

individuality vs. humanity, 184, 186

modern world, Greece compared to

injustice, revolt against, 165–167, 169–170

isolation vs. integration, 184–186, 189, 192, 200, 201

mind and spirit unbalanced vs. balanced, 203–206

popularity, basis of, 161, 171–172

private life vs. public service, 136–137

science in, 203, 204–205

sentimentalists vs. realists, 67–68

slavery abhorred vs. slavery accepted, 98–100

specialists vs. generalists, 72–73

Molière, 199–200

mystery religions, 179–180

mysticism, 42

mythology, 32–33, 143, 173

N

Necessity (fate), 177, 185, 189

Neitzsche, Friedrich, 140, 145

nineteenth century, mind and spirit in, 205

O

Old Comedy, 24, 77, 78, 82, 96–97

oracles, 27, 101, 109, 110

Oresteia, Macbeth compared to, 149–151

Orestes, 193

Orpheus, 179

Orphic mysteries, 179

P

Parthenon, Gothic cathedrals compared to, 43

Paul, Saint, 17, 174, 185

Peloponnesian War, 114–115, 119–124

Pericles

funeral oration, 67, 119, 137

on tyranny, 117

versatility, 65

Persian Wars, 105–111, 147

Pheidippides, 107

Phidias, 174

philosophy, 28

physicians, 28

Pindar, 54–64

Æschylus compared to, 63

on Homer, 61, 177

Kipling compared to, 56

as moralist, 180

rank among poets, 14

Plato, 65–76

equality, 168

on perfect state, 180

rank among prose stylists, 14

slavery, 99

and Socrates, 181

Trollope compared to, 69

Plutarch, 102, 179

Polybius, 114–115

Polygnotus, 38

power, 114–115

priests in

Egypt, 18–19, 37

Greece, 25–27, 29

India, 20

See also religion

prose, 14, 103