Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . Possible History the links whichconnect Homer with David and Solomon of theBible. In the third epoch, the age of Pericles,he can associate Confucius with Zoroaster andBuddha (see James Freeman Clarkes The TenGreat lieligions), the story of Daniel from theBible, with what he has previously learned inFenelons Lives of the Philosophers. Althoughthese studies border on the age of Pericles ratherthan belong to it, it is better to get them asso-ciated in on
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Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . Possible History the links whichconnect Homer with David and Solomon of theBible. In the third epoch, the age of Pericles, he can associate Confucius with Zoroaster andBuddha (see James Freeman Clarkes The TenGreat lieligions), the story of Daniel from theBible, with what he has previously learned inFenelons Lives of the Philosophers. Althoughthese studies border on the age of Pericles ratherthan belong to it, it is better to get them asso-ciated in one large group than to try to dividethem into many small groups. A careful studyof Prometheus from Plumptres translation of^schylus, followed up by the same topic astreated by Goethe, Shelley, Lowell, and Long-fellow, or the Alkestis of Euripides, or the storyof Iphigenia from Euripides told by the teacher, followed by Goethes Iphigenia, may serve notonly to revive the life of that epoch, but to re-late it to the thoughts in other epochs. Amongthe studies which follow each other in logical se-quence, serving as connecting links between one. WORKS OF THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION. 73 epoch and another, studies which actual experiencehas proved practical, may be mentioned the storyof Faust from The Zig-Zag Journeys, followed byMarlowes drama of Faustus; the myth of Theseusand the Amazons, followed by Chaucers KnightsTale, and Midsummer Nights Dream ; the storyof Orlando Mad from Bulfinchs Tales of Charle-magne, followed by Don Quixotes Fight with theWindmill, Slaying of the Wine Bags, Sancho Pan-zas Ride on the Saw-horse, and his Governmentof the Island (this series of lessons to show therise and fall of chivalric literature) ; the dramaof Philoctetes, followed by Enoch Arden, and thatby the myth of Laocoon, the story of Laocoon inVirgil, and a discussion as to whether Philoctetesor Enoch Arden were the more to be pitied, or adiscussion as to whether or not Sophocles were agreater artis