Garistotélous@ Perì Poiytikys@. Aristotelis de Arte Poetica, Vahlen's Text

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... direct consequence of events of which he had said "all these things are against me" (Gen. xlii. 36). Mcrafiao-is is much the same as the generic term Iuetooa which occurs in the definitions of both irtpirrereia. and avayvapiins in the next ch. Chap. XI. 1. KaBiirtp efyijrai. As irepirirtia has not been explained before, these words have a more general reference to such passages as c. vii. 7, and perhaps c. ix. 11. iBbv Sis cicppavav. The reference is to Soph. O. K. 924--1185. iv riji AvyKe7. This was a play of Theodectes (see inf. c. xviii. 1), but the plot, and indeed the legend itself, is altogether obscure. In fact tradition is silent as to the death of Danaus. Lynceus was one of the fifty sons of /Egyptus whose life was saved by his wife Hypermnaestra, but this seems to have nothing to do with the allusion in the text. 2. Tav irpis t6rvxia.v-.-aipurpfrav, "of those characters who are destined for the display of happiness or misery by the poet j" i.e. of those on whose fate the catastrophe of the play depends. In other words the ivayviipuris must take place in reference to the principal, not secondary, characters. KaMlarrl Se avayvtipiais. Besides the familiar instances in Greek Tragedy, (such as Esch. Choeph., Soph, and Eur. Electra, &c.) Twining cites Joseph made known to his brethren (Gen. xlv.) as an instance of this KaWlo-rn avayviipuris. 3. Kal yap vpbs Hvxa K.t.a. Aristotle probably does not refer to such inanimate objects as are the means of discovering persons e.g. the signet ring of Agamemnon (Soph. El.), the garment woven by Electra (iEsch. Choeph.), &c as the case would not be really different from the KtiWiffrai avayvaplffeis just mentioned. But there...