![]() ![]() are incomplete (lacking folios B starts at 3.1449a28). the Syro-Arabic translation ( Ar.) by Abū-Bishr made before 934.īoth B and Ar.the Latin translation by Moerbeke ( Lat.) finished in 1278 (its importance remained not recognized until 1931 and was not published until 1953).the codex Riccardianus 46 ( B), generally dated to the 13th or 14th century, but more probably of the first half of the 12th century (its primacy was first recognized in 1911).The codex Parisinus Graecus 1741 ( A), of about the middle or second part of the tenth century (its primacy was first recognized in 1867).The now established convention accepts four primary witnesses to the text (texts that do not depend on any other extant source): In the extant text there is no account of comedy. The general, but not universal, view is that there were originally two books to Poetics, one on tragedy and a second on comedy. ![]() All action is therefore imitation of action it is poetic." (Benardete & Davis 2002:xvii) Intentions are nothing more than imagined actions, internalizings of the external. It is the distinctive feature of human action, that whenever we choose what to do, we imagine an action for ourselves as though we were inspecting it from the outside. ![]() The Poetics is about two things: " poiêsis understood as poetry, or imitation of action, and poiêsis understood as action, which is also imitation of action. ![]()
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