"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)

Part of a series on the

Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]
"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)
Part of a series on the
Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]
"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)
Part of a series on the
Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]
"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)
Part of a series on the
Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]
"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)
Part of a series on the
Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]
"Aristoteles" (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791�1882)
Part of a series on the
Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon)
Categories On Interpretation
Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics
Topics Sophistical Refutations
Natural philosophy (physics)
Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On
the Soul Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep
On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration
On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of
Animals Generation of Animals On Colors On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants
On Marvellous Things Heard Mechanics Problems* On Indivisible Lines The Situations
and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics Politics
Nicomachean Ethics Magna Moralia* Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics
Economics* Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric Poetics
Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics
Fragments
Fragments*
Aristotle Aristotelianism
[*]: Authenticity disputed

strikethrough: Generally agreed to be spurious

v t e
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ?e?? p???t????; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is
the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical
treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.[3] This has been the traditional
view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle
focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise)
or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as
one of the elements.[4]

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek
literally means "making" and in this context includes drama � comedy, tragedy, and
the satyr play � as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the
fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle
describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.

Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2)
genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis.
His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[5] Although
Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition,
"almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions".[6]

The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic
version written by Averroes.[7]