Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...

<193>Aristotle, in his Poetics, claimed that tragedy, “through pity and fear, accomplishes the catharsis of such emotions (di j ejlevou kai; fovbou peraivnousa th;n tw'n toiouvtwn paqhmavtwn kavqarsin) (Poet. 1449b27f.) .” It has been argued that the medical purgation theory of the musical catharsis in Politics is the key phrase for the interpretation of tragic catharsis, where he says, those w...

Serious project failures can be tragedies. Borrowing the term from Aristotle, management researchers sometimes refer to a peripety when chaotic suddenly finds successful path towards completion. But Aristotle requires tragedies have sad ending, and in his Poetics, reversal (peripeteia) is paired with recognition (anagnorisis), which might closer transitory event projects. In late antiquity, we ...

Abstract When it comes to science writing, narrative has attracted little attention. This paper attempts fill this gap by presenting a brief pilot survey on in the Aristotelian Corpus. My main concern here is understand workings of process knowledge creation. Aristotle, apart from his paradigmatic role history knowledge, offers broad and varied corpus. The proceeds three steps: After few introd...

Popular tradition may be used to defend what seems irrational, and you can also say that sometimes it is not irrational, for it is likely that unlikely things should happen. — Aristotle, Poetics (c.335 BCE) But, on the other hand, Uncle Abner said that the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that start...

extended abstract 1. introduction the story of a hero’s journey and weathering arduous stages for the purpose of accomplishing a specific objective and subsequently bestowing the gifts of that tortuous journey on companions is an archetype which instigated joseph campbell (1904-1987), an american mythologist, to propound a comprehensive outline to portray an archetype of a heroes’ journey, with...