IV. THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC 62 Quintilian on the Teaching of Rhetoric (_De institutione oratoria_) 63 _Declamatio_ in Seneca, Tacitus, and Pliny 87 V. THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF RHETORIC 102 Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sentences 103 The Great Unknown on Imaginative Diction (“Longinus on the Sublime”) 122 VI. THE _POETIC_ OF ARISTOTLE 132 Tabular View 135 The Idea of Dramatic Movement 158 VII. POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE 167 Drama 168 Greek Tragedy 168 Senecan Tragedy 186 Latin Comedy 188 Narrative 192 The _Æneid_ 192 The Narrative Poetry of Ovid 216 The _Metamorphoses_ of Apuleius 221 VIII. RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC 224 The Pervasiveness of Rhetoric 224 Criticism from Grammarians 226 Criticism from Professional Public Speakers 229 Dio of Prusa 231 Plutarch’s _How Youth Should Read Poetry_ 239 Horace’s _Ars Poetica_ 242 TABULAR INDEX OF LATIN AND GREEK RHETORICAL TERMS 249 GENERAL INDEX 253 CHAPTER I RHETORIC AND POETIC The two great works of Aristotle on composition, the _Rhetoric_ and the _Poetic_, presuppose an ancient division. That a philosopher should have written either is itself significant; that he should have written both implies his ratification of the ancient idea that the art of speaking and writing is not throughout its various phases single and constant, but distinctly twofold. On the one hand, the ancients discerned and developed an art of daily communication, especially of public address, τέχνη ῥητορική, _ars oratoria_, rhetoric; on the other hand, an art of imaginative appeal, τέχνη ποιητική, _ars poetica_, poetic.