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3PHILODEMUS AND POETRY - (M.) McOsker The Good Poem According to Philodemus. Pp. xvi + 307. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cased, £64, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-091281-9 (review)The Classical Review 73 (2): 460-462. 2023.
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6Popular Morality, Philosophical Ethics and the RhetoricIn David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, Princeton University Press. pp. 211-230. 2015.
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26The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern ProblemsPrinceton University Press. 2002.Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of i…Read more
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10Cynthia P. Gardiner: The Sophoclean Chorus. A Study of Character and Function. Pp. x + 205. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. $22.50 (review)The Classical Review 38 (1): 140-140. 1988.
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23D. Moraitou: Die Äuβerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung auβerhalb der Poetik.(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 49.) Pp. x+163. Stuttgart, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1994. Cased, DM 58 (review)The Classical Review 45 (2): 438-438. 1995.
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49A. D. Nuttall: Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? Pp. x + 110. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. £20. ISBN: 0-19-818371-2The Classical Review 48 (1): 205-205. 1998.
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66G. M. Sifakis: Aristotle on the Function of Tragic Poetry. Pp. 206. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2001. Cased. ISBN: 960-524-132-3 (review)The Classical Review 53 (1): 249-250. 2003.
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31Poulakos, Depew Isocrates and Civic Education. Pp. x + 277. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Cased, US$50, £38. ISBN: 0-292-70219-1 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 36-37. 2006.
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48The Uses of Laughter in Greek CultureClassical Quarterly 41 (02): 279-. 1991.The proposition that man is the only animal capable of laughter is at least as old as Aristotle . In a strictly physical sense, this is probably false; but it is undoubtedly true that as a psychologically expressive and socially potent means of communication, laughter is a distinctively human phenomenon. Any attempt to study sets of cultural attitudes towards laughter, or the particular types of personal conduct which these attitudes shape and influence, must certainly adopt a wider perspective …Read more
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6PrefaceIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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37The Poetics in the Renaissance (B.) Kappl Die Poetik des Aristoteles in der Dichtungstheorie des Cinquecento. (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 83.) Pp. xii + 351. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. Cased, €88, US$172.80. ISBN: 978-3-11-018952- (review)The Classical Review 58 (2): 616-. 2008.
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70Katharsis Elizabeth S. Belfiore: Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion. Pp. xviii + 412. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. £30 (review)The Classical Review 43 (02): 253-254. 1993.
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23The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern ProblemsPrinceton University Press. 2002.A comprehensive reassessment of the concept of mimesis in the history of ancient Greek aesthetics and philosophy of art, with particular attention to Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, and neoplatonism. There is also a wide-ranging review of arguments pro and contra the idea of artistic mimesis from the Renaissance to modern literar theory. The book challenges standard accounts in numerous respects and builds a new dialectical model with which to make sense of the entire history of mimeti…Read more
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27D. Moraitou: Die Äuβerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung auβerhalb der Poetik.(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 49.) Pp. x+163. Stuttgart, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1994. Cased, DM 58 (review)The Classical Review 45 (02): 438-. 1995.
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5Aristotle's Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic (review)The Classical Review 47 (1): 198-199. 1997.
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5Part IIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. pp. 35-148. 2009.
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17The subjection of muthos to logos: Plato's citations of the poetsClassical Quarterly 50 (1): 94-112. 2000.According to Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.3, 995a7–8, there are people who will take seriously the arguments of a speaker only if a poet can be cited as a ‘witness’ in support of them. Aristotle's passing observation sharply reminds us that Greek philosophy had developed within, and was surrounded by, a culture which extensively valued the authority of the poetic word and the poet's ‘voice’ from which it emanated. The currency of ideas, values, and images disseminated through familiarity with poetry…Read more
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