Quotes from bookPoetics
AristotleOriginal title Περὶ ποιητικῆς (-335)
Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" . They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes:
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
1460a.19
Poetics
Variant: It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
