Aristotle On Poetry, Aristotle
Aristotle On Poetry, Aristotle
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Aristotle: On Poetry

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Aristotle

Unabridged: 1 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 07/01/2010

Synopsis

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first fully intact philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, the respected Greek sage offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (which the Greeks understood to literally mean "making"), examining its "first principles" and identifying its genres and basic elements, including what he terms drama-comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play–as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and iambic pentameter, which he always associates with wit.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Polo

I'm more of a Plato fan, but it was pleasure reading Aristotle.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Everybody should read Aristotle and this is an excellent summation of his crucial works. The commentary the editors provide is helpful. Good for the serious and the curious.......more

Goodreads review by George

Compared to THE Complete Works of Aristotle by JONATHAN BARNES, Irwin & Fine's translations are somewhat more opaque, and one would get confused more easily. Here is an example: Physics 190a22 Irwin & Fine "We say that something comes to be F from being G, but not that the G comes to be F, more often i......more

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