Teofrasto e la definizione di tragedia in Diomede: significato di περιστασις e rapporto con Aristotele

• Authors: Quattrochio Annalisa

Title variants

EN

THEOPHRASTUS AND THE DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY PRESERVED BY DIOMEDES: MEANING OF ΠΕΡIΣΤΑΣΙΣ AND RELATIONSHIP WITH ARISTOTLE

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

EN

This article examines Theophrastus’ definition of tragedy, as preserved by the Latin grammarian Diomedes, focusing on two questions that still need discussion. First, what is the meaning of the variously interpreted peristasis? An analysis of Diomedes’ text and a survey of the use of the word in Peripatetic works, both neglected by scholars up to now, suggest that it means “reversal”. Second, is the definition anti-Aristotelian? Not only katharsis, as is frequently emphasized, but, indeed, all the elements in Aristotle’s definition are absent from Theophrastus’. Nonetheless, references to characters and plot, on which Theophrastus’definition centres, can be found in Aristotle’s discussion of tragedy.

Keywords

EN

Theophrastus; Diomedes; Aristotle; definition of tragedy; peristasis

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 11-26

Contributors

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Quattrochio Annalisa