Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th century BCE treatise on what constitutes the best form of poetry is our ...

Michael Tierno's "Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters" delivers those rare goods, rising above the usual how-to level by plumbing the philosopher's masterwork for truths relevant to today's ...

Poetics by Aristotle is “the first surviving work devoted to literary criticism”. I was first told it was essential reading (to the point of it being an embarrassment not to have imbibed every page ...

The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 136, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 577-606 (30 pages) There are two related problems in the Poetics: Aristotle's contradictory statements about size, and Aristotle's ...

Aristotle wrote the Poetics between 335BCE - 323BCE. It is a fascinating work that delves deep into the analysis of tragic plays. In the Poetics, Aristotle evaluates and praises Homeric works (for ...

Research-based teaching, critical thinking and interdisciplinary learning are buzz words echoing around the hallowed halls of third level education across Europe. But what happens when you try to put ...

Since its founding in 1880 by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, The American Journal of Philology has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today The Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as ...

Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical Continue reading » World Enemy No. 1 ...