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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER XXXII. | |||
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| § | 1. | Profession of the Sophists; essential elements of their doctrines. The principle of Protagoras | 462 |
| § | 2. | Opinions of Gorgias. Pernicious effects of his doctrines, especially as they were carried out by his disciples | 463 |
| § | 3. | Important services of the Sophists in forming a prose style: different tendencies of the Sicilian and other Sophists in this respect | 465 |
| § | 4. | The rhetoric of Gorgias | 466 |
| § | 5. | His forms of expression | 467 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | |||
| § | 1. | Antiphon's career and employments | 469 |
| § | 2. | His school exercises, the Tetralogies | 471 |
| § | 3. | His speeches before the courts; character of his oratory | 472 |
| § | 4, | 5. More particular examination of his style | 474 |
| § | 6. | Andocides; his life and character | 477 |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | |||
| § | 1. | The life of Thucydides: his training that of the age of Pericles | 479 |
| § | 2. | His new method of teaching history | 481 |
| § | 3. | The consequent distribution and arrangement of his materials, as well in his whole work as | 482 |
| § | 4. | In the Introduction | 483 |
| § | 5. | His mode of treating these materials ; his research and criticism | 485 |
| § | 6. | Accuracy and, | 486 |
| § | 7. | Intellectual character of his history | 487 |
| § | 8, | 9. The speeches considered as the soul of his history | 488 |
| § | 10, | 11. His mode of expression and the structure of his sentences | 491 |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | |||
| § | 1. | Events which followed the Peloponnesian War. The adventures of Lysias. Leading epochs of his life | 495 |
| § | 2. | The earliest sophistical rhetoric of Lysias | 497 |
| § | 3. | The style of this rhetoric preserved in his later panegyrical speeches | 499 |
| § | 4. | Change in the oratory of Lysias produced by his own impulses and by his employment as a writer of speeches for private individuals | 500 |
| § | 5. | Analysis of his speech against Agoratas | 501 |
| § | 6. | General view of his extant orations | 503 |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | |||
| § | 1. | Early training of Isocrates; but slightly influenced by Socrates | 504 |
| § | 2. | School of Isocrates; its great repute; his attempts to influence the politics of the day without thoroughly understanding them | 505 |
| § | 3. | The form of a speech the principal matter in his judgment | 507 |
| § | 4. | New development which he gave to prose composition | 508 |
| § | 5. | His structure of periods | 509 |
| § | 6. | Smoothness and evenness of his style | 511 |
| § | 7. | He prefers the panegyrical oratory to the forensic | 512 |
