NOTES. 



1. (Page 13.) Simon was an Athenian, but we 

 do not know exactly when he Hved and wrote. 

 The story of his criticism of Micon's picture (see 

 p. 85) sets the earUest limit (Micon was a con- 

 temporary of Polygnotus, who was in Athens about 

 460 B.C.), and Xenophon's mention of him the 

 latest. Various theories have been propounded, such 

 as W. Helbig's, who thought (A. Z. 186 1, p. 180) 

 that he was the Simon mentioned in Aristophanes 

 (Knights, 242), and that he was Hipparch in 

 424 B. c. ; and Gerhard's, who recognized him in 

 the figure of a charioteer inscribed with his name 

 on a vase (Auserlesene Vasenbilder, iv, taf. 249). 

 But the earliest known Greek prose which has sur- 

 vived is the tract on the Athenian State, written 

 between 424 and 413 b. c. ; and the fragment of 

 Simon's work (see p. 107) bears no evidence of 



