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