Work
Poetics
Περὶ ποιητικῆς
By Aristotle.
- Kind of writing
- Rhetoric
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 4th c. BC
- Length
- 11,769 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 78% common words
- In the library
- 2 Greek texts, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis Opera, Vol. 11. Bekker, Immanuel, editor. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1837.
- Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. Kassel, Rudolf, editor. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1965 (printing).
- English translationAristotle. The Poetics. "Longinus," On the sublime. Demetrius, On Style. Fyfe, William Hamilton, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).
- English translationArisṭūṭālīs: Fann al-šiʿr, maʿa l-tarǧamah al-ʿarabīyah al-qadīmah wa-šurūḥ al-Fārābī wa-Ibn Sīnā wa-Ibn Rušd. ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī. Cairo, Maktabat al-nahḍah al-miṣrīyah, 1953.