Note 24 — Chapter VIII · RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC

For the significance of the well-known passage in the Laokoön, and of the psychological formulation of Lemaître, see my College Composition, page 183. For further discussion of this oration, see Ehemann, Die XII Rede von Dio Chrysostom, Kaiserslautern, 1895. See also W. A. Montgomery, Dio Chrysostom as a Homeric Critic, Baltimore, 1901 (Johns Hopkins dissertation).