The Poetics of Aristotle - (Paperback)

About the Book

The late Preston H. Epps, author of GREEK LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION and THOUGHTS FROM THE GREEKS, analyzes the POETICS of Aristotle, offering penetrating insights into Aristotle as critic and analyzer, rather than philosopher, and describing for readers what Aristotle actually said, rather than what it is thought he meant.

Book Synopsis

Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain a common terminology for this work. He has endeavored to make it clear enough that the average student with reasonable effort can understand the work without consulting aids.

From the Back Cover

In this work we have Aristotle the critic and analyzer rather than Aristotle the philosopher. the Poetics will be better understood, therefore, and more appropriable if it is read and thought of as the analysis and judgments of a keen mind trying to reduce a mass of Greek poetic material to some intelligible order so that its nature and forms could be better understood.

About the Author

The late Preston H. Epps, author of Greek Literature in Translation and Thoughts from the Greeks, was a widely respected teacher and scholar and was a member of the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.