Sumários

12 Fevereiro 2019, 15:00 • Eftychia Bathrellou

1447a13-18: The scope of the 'Poetics'
Mimesis and its cognates: pre-Platonic and Platonic usages (with emphasis on Republic 3)

For details, see handout, distributed in class and uploaded on e.learning.

5 Fevereiro 2019, 15:00 • Eftychia Bathrellou

Aristotle's 'Poetics': The work's title and opening sentence

the work's genre and its intellectual roots
poetry as technê vs poetry as divine inspiration: Aristotle in relation to early Greek poetry and Plato

For details, see handout.

29 Janeiro 2019, 15:00 • Eftychia Bathrellou

A. Introduction to the course: practical matters (evaluation and bibliographical tools)

B. Introduction to the course: substance

1. The scope/aim of the course

2. Aristotle and his works - The Poetics as an 'unpublished' scholarly treatise

3. The transmission of the Poetics: Middles Ages, Renaissance.

4. The text of the Poetics: primary witnesses for the Greek text.

Preparation for next seminar:

i. Read the whole work, with particular emphasis on chapters 1-4.

ii. If there is time, also read Plato, Republic 392c6-398b8 (book 3) and 595-608b10 (book 10).

For handouts etc., see the course's page at https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/.