GREEK HUMOUR.

Birth of Humour--Personalities--Story of Hippocleides--Origin
of Comedy--Archilochus--Hipponax--Democritus,
the Laughing Philosopher--Aristophanes--Humour
of the Senses--Indelicacy--Enfeeblement of the Drama--Humorous
Games--Parasites, their Position and Jests--Philoxenus--Diogenes--Court
of Humour--Riddles--Silli 52


PART III.

ROMAN HUMOUR.

Roman Comedy--Plautus--Acerbity--Terence--Satire--Lucilius--Horace
--Humour of the Cæsar Family--Cicero--Augustus--Persius--Petronius
--Juvenal--Martial--Epigrammatist--Lucian--Apuleius--Julian
the Apostate--The Misopogon--Symposius' Enigmas--Macrobius--Hierocles
and Philagrius 99


ENGLISH HUMOUR.

CHAPTER I.

MIDDLE AGES.

Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages--Stagnation of
Mind--Scarcity of Books--Character of reviving Literature--Religious
Writings--Fantastic Legends--Influence