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Aristotle, Poetics

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[1447a][8] peri poiêtikês autês te kai tôn eidôn autês, hên tina dunamin hekaston echei, kai pôs dei sunistasthai tous muthous [10] ei mellei kalôs hexein hê poiêsis, eti de ek posôn kai poiôn esti moriôn, homoiôs de kai peri tôn allôn hosa tês autês esti methodou, legômen arxamenoi kata phusin prôton apo tôn prôtôn.

epopoiia dê kai hê tês tragôidias poiêsis eti de kômôidia kai hê dithurambopoiêtikê kai tês [15] aulêtikês hê pleistê kai kitharistikês pasai tunchanousin ousai mimêseis to sunolon: diapherousi de allêlôn trisin, ê gar tôi en heterois mimeisthai ê tôi hetera ê tôi heterôs kai mê ton auton tropon. hôsper gar kai chrômasi kai schêmasi polla mimountai tines apeikazontes hoi men [20] dia technês hoi de dia sunêtheias, heteroi de dia tês phônês, houtô kan tais eirêmenais technais hapasai men poiountai tên mimêsin en rhuthmôi kai logôi kai harmoniai, toutois d' ê chôris ê memigmenois: hoion harmoniai men kai rhuthmôi chrômenai monon hê te aulêtikê kai hê kitharistikê kan ei tines [25] heterai tunchanôsin ousai toiautai tên dunamin, hoion hê tôn suringôn, autôi de tôi rhuthmôi [mimountai] chôris harmonias hê tôn orchêstôn kai gar houtoi dia tôn schêmatizomenôn rhuthmôn mimountai kai êthê kai pathê kai praxeis:

hê de [epopoiia] monon tois logois psilois hê tois

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Aristotle. ed. R. Kassel, Aristotle's Ars Poetica. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1966.
OCLC: 8250552


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