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

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