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115The subjection of muthos to logos: Plato's citations of the poetsClassical Quarterly 50 (01): 94-. 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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69Katharsis 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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65G. 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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51The Poetics P. L. Donini: La tragedia e la vita. Saggi sulla Poetica di Aristotele . (Culture Antiche, Studi e Testi 18.) Pp. 133. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004. Paper, €14. ISBN: 88-7694-735- (review)The Classical Review 55 (02): 445-. 2005.
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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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48Review of Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (5). 2005.
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47The 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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47La psychologie morale de la catharsis: Un essai de reconstructionLes Etudes Philosophiques 67 (4): 499-517. 2003.Résumé — Cet article défend une interprétation de la catharsis qui intègre la psychologie, l’éthique et l’esthétique. Un réexamen attentif de la référence à la catharsis musicopoétique en Politique VIIImontre que, contrairement à l’opinion reçue, la catharsis n’est pas ici séparée de la conception aristotélicienne de l’importance éthique des réactions émotionnelles face aux formes d’art mimétique. Politique VIII donne également une raison de supposer que la catharsis est associée au plaisir, mai…Read more
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4715. The Republic’s Two Critiques of PoetryIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), Platon: Politeia, Akademie Verlag. pp. 243-258. 2011.
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44The poetics S. Benardete, M. Davis (trans): Aristotle on poetics . Pp. XXX + 105. South bend, in: St Augustine's press, 2002. Paper, $10. Isbn: 1-58731-026- (review)The Classical Review 53 (02): 304-. 2003.
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43Review of Martha Husain, Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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41Der Mimesisbegriff in der Griechischen Antike: Neubetrachtung eines Umstrittenen Begriffes als Ansatz zu einer Neuen Interpretation der Platonischen Kunstauffassung (review)The Classical Review 45 (1): 176-177. 1995.
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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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36Cynthia 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 (01): 140-. 1988.
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36Comic satire and freedom of speech in classical AthensJournal of Hellenic Studies 111 48-70. 1991.
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36Politicized Critics Y. L. Too: The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism . Pp. ix + 326. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-815076- (review)The Classical Review 51 (02): 276-. 2001.
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35Ancient Interpretations of νομαστìκωμδєȋν in AristophanesClassical Quarterly 34 (1): 83-88. 1984.Interest in νομαστìκωμδєȋν began early. Even before the compilation of prosopo-graphical κωμδούμєνο in the second century B.C., Hellenistic study of Aristophanes had devoted attention to the interpretation of personal satire. The surviving scholia contain references to Alexandrian scholars such as Euphronius, Eratosthenes and Callistratus which show that in their commentaries and monographs these men had dealt with issues of νομαστì κωμδєȋν Much material from Hellenistic work on Old Comedy was t…Read more
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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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