Sunday, April 20, 2025

On Poets: How to Judge Poetry?

 While in the Republic Plato expelled Homer and mimetic poetry, he himself wrote his dialogues in mimetic form, and he is not even the inventor of that genre: before him, Alexamenus of Teos and Sotion invented that type of work in prose.


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-aesthetics/

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