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