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Arist. Poet. 1461b1–3: a broad hint at Zoilus? / Pavlova, Anastasija V. .
In: Philologia Classica, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2019, p. 149-154.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Arist. Poet. 1461b1–3: a broad hint at Zoilus?
AU - Pavlova, Anastasija V.
N1 - Anastasija V. Pavlova. Arist. Poet. 1461b1–3: a broad hint at Zoilus?. Philologia Classica 2019, 14(1), 149–154. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.112
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In Poetics 25 (1461b1–3), Aristotle mentions critics who tend to misunderstand the text or read it inaccurately and thus criticise not the actual work, but rather their ideas on it. Some of the extant fragments of Zoilus (4th c. BC), the best-known and the most notorious critic of all the Aristotle’s contemporaries, imply that his critique was sometimes based on misreading and misinterpreting of the text so he could be one of those whom Aristotle meant. This article deals with three fragments attributed to Zoilus (two of them are found in the Scholia to the Iliad, the third one is quoted in Ps. Longinus’ De Sublimitate), each containing criticism towards certain passages in Homer’s poems. On closer examination it turns out that all the inconsistencies Zoilus postulated can be explained, should we read the text more carefully. Hence Zoilus dealt not with what is written but rather with what seemed to him to be convenient for his criticism.
AB - In Poetics 25 (1461b1–3), Aristotle mentions critics who tend to misunderstand the text or read it inaccurately and thus criticise not the actual work, but rather their ideas on it. Some of the extant fragments of Zoilus (4th c. BC), the best-known and the most notorious critic of all the Aristotle’s contemporaries, imply that his critique was sometimes based on misreading and misinterpreting of the text so he could be one of those whom Aristotle meant. This article deals with three fragments attributed to Zoilus (two of them are found in the Scholia to the Iliad, the third one is quoted in Ps. Longinus’ De Sublimitate), each containing criticism towards certain passages in Homer’s poems. On closer examination it turns out that all the inconsistencies Zoilus postulated can be explained, should we read the text more carefully. Hence Zoilus dealt not with what is written but rather with what seemed to him to be convenient for his criticism.
KW - Aristotle
KW - Poetics
KW - literary criticism
KW - rhetoric
KW - Zoilus of Amphipolis
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.112
DO - https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.112
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 149
EP - 154
JO - Philologia Classica
JF - Philologia Classica
SN - 0202-2532
IS - 1
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