BOOK I.✦

GREEK CRITICISM.

CHAPTER I.✦

INTRODUCTORY.

PAGE Delimitation of frontier 3 Classes of Criticism excluded 4 Class retained 4 Method 4 Texts the chief object 5 Hypotheses non fingo 6

Illustration from M. Egger 6 The Documents 7 Greek 7 Roman 7 Mediæval 7 Renaissance and Modern 8

CHAPTER II.✦

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