Library of useful knowledge

Ein weißes Fohlen wächst im Schutz einer Zebraherde, die sich gegen Löwen, Leoparden, Hyänen zur Wehr setzen muß, zu einem prächtigen Hengst heran und führt die Herde schließlich sicher durch einen gefährlichen Steppenbrand. Sein Zweikampf mit dem Menschen, der ihn seiner Freiheit berauben will, wird zum Höhepunkt dieser ungewöhnlichen Pferdegeschichte aus der südafrikanischen Steppe.

This book is written for those who are curious about their own minds, especially those interested in their own consciousness. We all use our minds differently and this book lays a foundation for a truly individual yet comprehensive view based on the detailed understanding that science can now bring to our own individual experiences. It will also help people to get more out of their lives by increasing the richness of their own experiences. Preventing this richness from descending into chaos is a difficult matter, but if the mind is understood it can more easily be kept in order.

CONTENTS : V. 1. Characteristics of the Greek literature -- Religion of the Greeks -- Earliest popular songs -- Origin of the epic poetry -- Homer -- The cyclic poets -- The Homeric hymns -- Hesiod -- Other epic poets -- The elegy and the epigram -- Iambic poetry -- Progress of the Greek music -- The Aeolic school of lyric poetry -- Choral lyric poetry -- Pindar -- Theological and philosophical poetry -- The early Greek philosophers -- The early Greek historians -- Herodotus -- Literary predominance of Athens -- Origin of the Greek drama -- Form and character of the Greek tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- The other tragic poets -- V. 2. Origin and structure of the old comedy -- Aristophanes -- The other poets of the old comedy : the middle and new comedy -- Lyric and epic poetry during this period -- Political oratory at Athens previously to the influence of rhetoric -- The rhetoric of the sophists -- The beginnings of regular political and forensic oratory among the Athenians -- The political historiography of Thucydides -- The new cultivation of oratory by Lysias -- Isocrates -- The new beginning of Attic training : foundation of the Socratic schools -- Xenophon and Ctesias -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Demosthenes -- Orators contemporary with Demosthenes -- Rhetorical historians and provincial antiquaries -- Medical literature : writings attributed to Hippocrates -- The school of Alexandria : poets -- Prose writers of Alexandria -- V. 3. Schools of philosophy -- Cultivation of the theory of rhetoric -- Treatment of history : Polybius and his immediate predecessors -- Greek literature domesticated at Rome -- Learned history and geography under the Caesars -- New flight of rhetoric in the second century -- Oriental tendencies of Greek philosophy : Neo-Platonism -- The opposite tendency : Lucian -- History and geography under the Antonines and their successors -- Scientific scholars and learned collectors -- Last days of paganism : heathen rhetoricians and philosophers -- Antagonism of Christianity : opponents of heathen literature -- Echoes of the old literature : romances, the epic school of Nonnus -- General view of the cultivation of literature at Byzantium.