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Poetics
Περὶ ποιητικῆς
The founding text of Western literary theory. It conceives poetry as imitation (mimesis) of human actions, natural to human beings and a source of knowledge and pleasure, and claims it is more philosophical than history because it speaks of the universal. It defines tragedy as the imitation of a serious and complete action which, through pity and fear, accomplishes the purification (katharsis) of such emotions, and analyses its six parts, with the plot as the “soul” of the work, reversal, recognition and the tragic error (hamartia). Rediscovered in the Renaissance, it dictated the rules of classical drama for centuries.
Authorship note
A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Only the first book survives, devoted to tragedy and epic; the second, on comedy, was lost. Bekker 1447a–1462b.
Editions and translations
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English
Poetics (con Longino, Sobre lo sublime, y Demetrio, Sobre el estilo)
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 199), 1995
Translation: Stephen Halliwell
ISBN 9780674995635
The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation
Princeton University Press, 1984
Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)
ISBN 0691016518
Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.
Griego antiguo
Aristotle
Aristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
The Conscious LibraryAristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831
Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.
Español
Poética (edición trilingüe griego-latín-español)
Gredos (Biblioteca Románica Hispánica, 8), 1974
Translation: Valentín García Yebra
ISBN 9788424912000
Poética. Magna Moralia
Gredos, 2020
ISBN 9788424939151
El registro de Open Library menciona a Teresa Martínez Manzano y Leonardo Martínez Dupla; no se ha verificado qué tradujo cada uno.
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- Generation of Animals
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Will · 322
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Book of Causes (Liber de causis) · 850
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
Sources
- Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).
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