Chapter 13 No.13

The Despots; The Democracies.

Brilliant age of the great lyric poets.

The Sparta of Alcman's time.

§ 34. At last we emerge into the open light of day, and find ourselves in the seventh century (more strictly 650-550 B.C.), in that brilliant, turbulent, enterprising society which produced the splendid lyric poetry of Alc?us and Sappho, of A