GREEK CRITICISM BEFORE ARISTOTLE.
Earliest criticism of the Greeks 9
Probably Homeric in subject 9
Probably allegoric in method 10
Xenophanes 12
Parmenides 13
Empedocles 13
Democritus 15
The Sophists—earlier 15
The Sophists—later 17
Plato 17
His crotchets 18
His compensations 19
Aristophanes 21
The _Frogs_ 22
Other criticism in Comedy 23
Simylus (?) 25
Isocrates 26