Note 6 — Chapter VIII · RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC

To what has already appeared from the preceding chapters may be added the opinion of George Converse Fiske: “from the Hellenistic period on, and throughout the Roman world of letters, the study of rhetoric was a prerequisite for literary composition in every field.” The Plain Style in the Scipionic Circle, page 62 (University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, number 3, 1919).