Outline

The argument is arranged as follows: first, a running and condensed summary of our thesis; second, brief footnotes citing references; third, appendices in which documentary data are either explicated or cited.

1. The Problem
2. Data
   1. Hard Data
      1. Caecilius of Calacte
      2. Theodorus of Gadara
   2. Soft Data
      1. Mention of the Colossus
      2. Two Related Problems
         1. The Banishment of the Philosophers
         2. The Persecution of the Jews
      3. Longinus and the Conflict between Asianism and Atticism
      4. Omission of Reference to the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
      5. Theories of Cultural Decline and the Dating of Longinus
         1. The Natural Theory of Cultural Decline
         2. The Historical and Social Theory of Cultural Decline
         3. The Political Theory of Cultural Decline
         4. The Moral Theory of Cultural Decline
         5. Summary of Evidence for Dating by Means of theTopos of Cultural Decline
      6. Theories of Cultural Revival
         1. Political Revival
         2. Moral Revival
         3. The Revival in Oratory
         4. Evidence for Dating Longinus on the Basis of the Topos of Cultural Revival
      7. Cassius Longinus and Longinus
3. Conclusion