Authorship of the criticism attributed to Aristotle[29]
Its subject-matter[30]
Abstract of the Poetics[32]
Characteristics, general[35]
Limitations of range[36]
Ethical twist[37]
Drawbacks resulting[37]
Overbalance of merit[38]
The doctrine of ἁμαρτία[39]
The Rhetoric[39]
Meaning and range of “Rhetoric”[40]
The contents of the book[41]
Attitude to lexis[42]
Vocabulary—“Figures”[43]
A difficulty[44]
“Frigidity”[44]
Archaism[45]
Stock epithet and periphrasis[45]
False metaphor[46]
Simile[46]
“Purity”[46]
“Elevation”[46]
Propriety[46]
Prose rhythm[47]
Loose and periodic style, &c.[48]
General effect of the Rhetoric[48]
The Homeric Problems[49]
Value of the two main treatises[51]
Defects and drawbacks in the Poetics[51]
And in the Rhetoric[52]
Merits of both[53]
The end of art: the οἰκεῖα ἡδονή[55]
Theory of Action[55]
And of ἁμαρτία[56]
Of Poetic Diction[56]

CHAPTER IV.

GREEK CRITICISM AFTER ARISTOTLE. SCHOLASTIC AND MISCELLANEOUS.

Development of Criticism[60]
Theophrastus and others[61]
Criticism of the later Philosophical Schools: The Stoics[62]
The Epicureans: Philodemus[63]
The Pyrrhonists: Sextus Empiricus[64]
The Academics[66]
The Neo-Platonists[67]
Plotinus[67]
Porphyry[68]
Rhetoricians and Grammarians[70]
Rhetoric early stereotyped[72]
Grammatical and Scholiastic criticism[73]
The Pergamene and Alexandrian Schools[74]
Their Four Masters[75]
The Scholiasts on Aristophanes[76]
On Sophocles[77]
On Homer[78]
The Literary Epigrams of the Anthology[81]
The Rhetoric of the Schools[87]
Its documents[88]
The Progymnasmata of Hermogenes[90]
Remarks on them[91]
Aphthonius[92]
Theon[93]
Nicolaus[95]
Nicephorus[95]
Minors[95]
General remarks on the Progymnasmata[96]
The Commentaries on them[96]
The “Art” of Hermogenes[97]
Other “Arts,” &c.[100]
Treatises on Figures[102]
The Demetrian De Interpretatione[103]
Menander on Epideictic[104]
Others[105]
The Rhetoric or De Inventione of Longinus[106]
Survey of School Rhetoric[107]
The Practical Rhetoricians or Masters of Epideictic[108]
Dion Chrysostom[109]
Aristides of Smyrna[113]
Maximus Tyrius[117]
Philostratus[118]
Libanius[121]
Themistius[124]
Julian[125]

CHAPTER V.

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, PLUTARCH, LUCIAN, LONGINUS.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus[127]
His works[128]
The Rhetoric[129]
The Composition[129]
Censures and Commentaries on Orators, &c.[133]
The minor works[134]
The judgment of Thucydides[135]
General critical value[136]
Plutarch[137]
The Lives quite barren for us[138]
The Moralia at first sight promising[138]
Examination of this promise[139]
The “Education”[139]
The Papers on “Reading”[140]
The Lives of the Orators[142]
The Malignity of Herodotus[142]
The “Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander”[143]
The Roman Questions[144]
The Symposiacs[144]
Lucian[146]
The How to write History[147]
The Lexiphanes[148]
Other pieces: The Prometheus Es[149]
Works touching Rhetoric[150]
His critical limitations[151]
Longinus: the difficulties raised[152]
“Sublimity”[153]
Quality and contents of the treatise[154]
Preliminary Retrospect[158]
Detailed Criticism: The opening[159]
The stricture on the Orithyia[159]
Frigidity[160]
The “maidens in the eyes”[160]
The canon “Quod semper”[161]
The sources of sublimity[161]
Longinus on Homer[162]
On Sappho[163]
“Amplification”[164]
“Images”[165]
The Figures[166]
“Faultlessness”[168]
Hyperboles[169]
“Harmony”[169]
The Conclusion[170]
Modernity of the treatise[172]
Or rather sempiternity[173]