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

CHAPTER VI.

BYZANTINE CRITICISM.

Photius 175
Detailed examination of the _Bibliotheca_ 177

Importance of its position as a body of critical judgment 183
Tzetzes 187
John the Siceliote 187

INTERCHAPTER I. 191

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BOOK II.

LATIN CRITICISM.