Note 18 — Chapter VIII · RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC

For the varying relations of the “second sophistic” to rhetoric on the one hand and to philosophy on the other see the introduction to H. von Arnim’s Leben und Werke des Dio von Prusa, mit einer Einleitung, Sophistik, Rhetorik, Philosophie in ihrem Kampf um die Jugendbildung, Berlin, 1898; and, for later periods, A. Boulanger, Ælius Aristide et la sophistique ... au IIe siècle, Paris, 1923; W. C. Wright, Philostratus and Eunapius, the Lives of the Sophists, London and New York (Loeb Library), 1922, introduction; L. Méridier, L’influence de la seconde sophistique sur l’œuvre de Grégoire de Nysse, Paris, 1906, chapter i.

Philostratus, Vit. Soph. ii (Wright, p. 34), says that Hippias of Elis discoursed (διελέγετο) on painting and sculpture.