| #33662 in Books | Aristotle/ Heath, Malcolm (TRN)/ Heath, Malcolm | 1997-03-01 | 1997-03-01 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.40 x5.10l,.26 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | Penguin Books||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| 5 star translation, 3 star commentary: 4.5 overall|By The Great Penguin Adventure|I ordered this particular translation of the Poetics for a two-person reading group. The other member recommended it for the translation and this being my first reading of the whole text I was happy to go along. In the end it was a fine choice for the translation, but the commentary comes along||
I find the Introduction extremely convincing, lucid, learned, fair to past scholarship, and truly illuminating about the meaning of tragedy in general and about the very specific acceptions of hamartia, katharsis, ekplêxis, and thauma, in the contex
Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature
In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Poetics (Penguin Classics) | Aristotle. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
