Preface to the second edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- I. The transmission of Greek literature -- II. The beginnings -- III. The Homeric epic -- A. The Iliad and Odyssey -- B. The epic cycle -- C. The Homeric hymns -- D. Other works attributed to Homer -- IV. The archaic period -- A. Hesiod -- B. Archaic epic after Hesiod -- C. Early lyric poetry -- D. Folk-tales -- E. Religious literature -- F. The beginnings of philosophy -- G. Mature archaic lyric: Theognis; The epigram and the scolion; Anacreon; Songwriters on the mainland; Choral lyric -- H. Philosophy at the end of the archaic period -- I. The beginnings of science and historiography -- I. Beginnings of drama -- V. The flowering of the Greek city state -- A. Beginning and culmination of the classical period: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Other forms of poetry; Damon and the theory of music; Herodotus; Other historians; Philosophy -- B. The enlightenment and its opponents: the Sophists and the beginnings of rhetoric; Euripides; Other tragic writers; Other poetry; Political comedy; Political writings; Thucydides; The sciences; Socrates -- C. The fourth century up to Alexander: Plato and the Academy; Aristotle and the Peripatos; The art of rhetoric; Historiography; Drama; Other forms of poetry -- VI. The Hellenistic age -- A. Athens: New comedy; Attic prose; The philosophical systems -- B. The new centres: General characteristics; Callimachus; Theocritus; Apollonius; Epigram; Drama; Other poetry; Historiography; The sciences; Pseudopythagorean literature; Jewish-Hellenistic literature -- VII. The empire -- A. Poetry -- B. Prose: Plutarch; The second Sophistic; Historiographers and periegetes; Prose romance an epistolography; The second sophistic in the later era; Philosophy; The sciences.

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