The arkhḗ of Poetry and Drama in Aristotle’s Poetics
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.14.2.61-90Keywords:
ancient poetics, ancient philosophy, ancient drama, Aristotle, PoeticsAbstract
Aristotle’s Poetics is a fundamental work to understand the development of poetry and philosophy among the heirs of the Hellenic tradition, constituting a particularly fruitful moment of philosophical reflection on poetic art. After situating the intellectual context of its production, we intend to advance a series of considerations on the importance assumed by the notion of arkhḗ (“origin; principle; power”) of poetry and drama within the Aristotelian argumentation in order to understand the reasons that may have led him to oppose some of the most radical Platonic positions on poetry. In order to achieve this objective we will realize a close reading of the Poetics, enriched with an intertextual approach to the text and using specialized studies in this movement. We will also propose specific interpretations of especially obscure passages, such as the famous passage about the dithyrambic origin of tragedy.
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