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L24-02-07-14-205. The Diaeresis of Mimetic forms The fundamental confusion: Poetics is not about the example it presents, but the ART of POETRY . The peculiarity of the parts of a tragedy: taking the example for the theory.

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L24-02-07-14-205

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  1. L24-02-07-14-205 • The Diaeresis of Mimetic forms • The fundamental confusion: Poetics is not about the example it presents, but the ART of POETRY. • The peculiarity of the parts of a tragedy: taking the example for the theory. • The huge problem in the actual text of the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles. If we follow Aristotle, we inevitably misread what the text says. • The stumbling blocks.

  2. Diaeresis in ch 1-4 STEP DIFFERENTIA 1. Unstated differentia * [“Imitations?] Unstated [Action?] 2. First Differentia of Means * Poetry (including music) Rhythm, Language, Harmony single or combined 3. Second Differentia of Means *Poetry proper Uses all:Language Rhythm, Harmony 4. Third Differentia of Means * Dithyrambics, Language, Rhythm Drama, Epic Harmony used successively 5. Differentia of Object *Tragedy, Epic Heroic men (spaudaious) Comedy vs. unheroic (phaulous) 6. Differentia of Manner *Tragedy & Epic Dramatizes (does not narrate) 7. Final Differentia ? *Tragedy [Catharsis?] On the website: from Peggy Battin & F. Solmson, on Diaeresis in Aristotle

  3. After Aristotle Pervasive impacts, as indicated yesterday. The Peripatetic philosophy travelled wherever Alexander the Great went. One effect, long survival of translations, redactions, adaptations of Aristotle in Averroes and Avicena: When Islam settled in Moorish Spain, the material, the learning, was literallly adjacent to the main capitals of Europe. Largely unrecognized and unedited until the 12th century and later. The Christian dilemma: Plato had been pervasively integrated or raided to consolidate doctrine, under St. Augustine (particularly, On Christian Doctrine). Aristotle was a challenge: superior logic, much broader subject representation, and above all, a picture of the cosmos that appeared to compatible with a Christian world picture. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica. Reconcile Christianity with Aristotle, whom he simply called “The Philosopher.” Central consequence: the development of SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY (school philosophy) throughout the universities of Europe FIRST UNIVERSITY: University of Bologna, 1088. Others: Paris, from 1160; Oxford: 1096, quick development when English students forbidden to study in Paris after 1167. Heidelberg, 1386 PTOLEMY (hold on, in a minute)

  4. Logic (and Mathematics)

  5. political

  6. Alexander’s conquests

  7. Alexandrian Library 300 BCE- 415 AD Organized by Demetrius of Phaleron (student of Aristotle) under Ptolemy 1 (~367 BCE ) modelled on Aristotle’s Lyceum. Four phases of destruction: Julius Caesar 48 BC War time fire, not intentional; Conquest by emperor Aurelian (270-275) (also not intentional); by decree of Coptic Pope Thophilus, 391; final destruction in Islamic Conquest, after 642.

  8. Claudius Ptolemeus AD 127-145

  9. Raphael: The School of Athens (ca.1510) Plato, pointing up Aristotle, pointing down

  10. http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf Ptolemaic Astronomy http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf

  11. http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf

  12. Copernicus • A geocentric model: the scientific revolution. • Nicholai Copernicus: 1473 –1543 • 1542 (written earlier): De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) • Galileo Gallilei, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton

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