The Text of Aristotle’s Poetics and its Arabic Translation

What is it about?

This article examines two much-discussed passages of Aristotle's Poetics. In the first case, the Arabic translation of the treatise helps to elucidate which variant should be preferred. In the second case, the text of the translation raises the intriguing question of whether its variant reading should replace the text accepted in all the editions published over the last two centuries.

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