His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. In English, its title varies: typically it is titled Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric. Aristotle's Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC. It was available through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. The work was lost to the Western world and often misrepresented for a long time. He examines its "first principles" and identifies its genres and basic elements his analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama-comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play-as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
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