Abstract
Aristotle’s treatment of the qualitative parts of tragedy in chapter 6 of the Poetics contains in 1450a12–14 a passage that is hard to understand and generally condemned as corrupt. This passage is given a better understanding in this paper: In a first step the discussion of the relevant research literature shows that the text has hitherto been neither adequately explained in its transmitted form, nor satisfactorily healed by critical interventions. In a second step it is shown that, contrary to the communis opinio, the transmitted text is in fact coherent and its presence in this context pointedly raises the quality of the argument. The solution thus found also contributes to improving our understanding of, on the one hand, the structure of the argument in the whole second half of the sixth chapter of the Poetics and, on the other hand, Aristotle’s essential position on staging (ὄψις) and on fourth-century tragedy.
Danksagung
Ich danke Lutz Käppel (Kiel) herzlich für die kritische und hilfreiche Durchsicht des Manuskripts sowie für die fortwährende Unterstützung. Ebenfalls vielmals gedankt sei den Gutachtern/-innen des Philologus für ihre wertvollen Anregungen.
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- Aufsätze
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- On the Authenticity of Eur. Or. 1384
- Stative Historical Presents in Greek Tragedy: Are They Real?
- Vom Nutzen der ὄψις: Aristoteles, Poetik 1450a12–14
- La salatura delle carni: nota a Catone, agr. 162,1–3 e Columella, rust. 12,55
- Titulis oppida capta legam: Storia di un ‘τόπος elegiaco’ da Gallo ad Ovidio
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