{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg034.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg034.local002","title":"Περὶ ποιητικῆς","titleGreek":"Περὶ ποιητικῆς","alternateTitles":["Poetics","Poétique","Poetique","Περὶ ποιητικῆς"],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Rudolf Kassel"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis De arte poetica liber","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford, UK","date":"1965","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/112360/13?tx_dlf%5Bpagegrid%5D=0&cHash=9dfdbc0be1f7342c999475fe8cca21bf","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Περὶ ποιητικῆς. ed. Rudolf Kassel. Aristotelis De arte poetica liber, Oxford, UK, Clarendon Press, 1965. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg034.local002","excerpt":"περὶ ποιητικῆς αὐτῆς τε καὶ τῶν εἰδῶν αὐτῆς, ἥν τινα δύναμιν ἕκαστον ἔχει, καὶ πῶς δεῖ συνίστασθαι τοὺς μύθους εἰ μέλλει καλῶς ἕξειν ἡ ποίησις, ἔτι δὲ ἐκ πόσων καὶ ποίων ἐστὶ μορίων, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα τῆς αὐτῆς ἐστι μεθόδου, λέγωμεν ἀρξάμενοι κατὰ φύσιν πρῶτον ἀπὸ τῶν πρώτων. ἐποποιία δὴ καὶ ἡ τῆς τραγῳδίας ποίησις ἔτι δὲ κωμῳδία καὶ ἡ διθυραμβοποιητικὴ καὶ τῆς αὐλητικῆς ἡ πλείστη καὶ κιθαριστικῆς πᾶσαι τυγχάνουσιν οὖσαι μιμήσεις τὸ σύνολον· διαφέρουσι δὲ ἀλλήλων τρισίν, ἢ γὰρ τῷ ἐν ἑτέροις μιμεῖσθαι ἢ τῷ ἕτερα ἢ τῷ ἑτέρως καὶ μὴ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον. ὥσπερ γὰρ καὶ χρώμασι καὶ σχήμασι πολλὰ μιμοῦνταί τινες ἀπεικάζοντες (οἱ μὲν διὰ τέχνης οἱ δὲ διὰ συνηθείας), ἕτεροι δὲ διὰ τῆς φωνῆς, οὕτω κἀν ταῖς εἰρημέναις τέχναις ἅπασαι μὲν ποιοῦνται τὴν μίμησιν ἐν ῥυθμῷ καὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἁρμονίᾳ, τούτοις δ’ ἢ χωρὶς ἢ μεμιγμένοις· οἷον ἁρμονίᾳ μὲν καὶ ῥυθμῷ χρώμεναι μόνον ἥ τε αὐλητικὴ καὶ ἡ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/4-chapter-4/"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/5-chapter-5/"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/6-chapter-6/"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/7-chapter-7/"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/8-chapter-8/"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/9-chapter-9/"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/10-chapter-10/"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/11-chapter-11/"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/12-chapter-12/"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/13-chapter-13/"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/14-chapter-14/"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/15-chapter-15/"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/16-chapter-16/"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/17-chapter-17/"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/18-chapter-18/"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/19-chapter-19/"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/20-chapter-20/"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/21-chapter-21/"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/22-chapter-22/"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/23-chapter-23/"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/24-chapter-24/"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/25-chapter-25/"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/26-chapter-26/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg034.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg034/local002.json.gz"}}