Poetics
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Poetics

by Aristotle
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Introduction Intro
Plot Summary Plot
Summary & Analysis
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
Themes
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  • Tragedy vs. Epic Poetry  Theme Icon
    Tragedy vs. Epic Poetry
  • Imitation  Theme Icon
    Imitation
  • Fear, Pity, and Catharsis Theme Icon
    Fear, Pity, and Catharsis
  • Component Parts and Balance  Theme Icon
    Component Parts and Balance
Quotes
Characters
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  • Aristotle
  • Oedipus
  • Iphigeneia
  • Odysseus
  • Sophocles
  • Homer
  • Achilles
  • Aegisthus
  • Aeschylus
  • Ajax
  • Creon
  • Hector
  • Medea
  • Menelaus
  • Merope
  • Orestes
Terms
  • All Terms
  • Catharsis
  • Change of Fortune
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Complex Plot
  • Complication
  • Diction
  • Dithyrambic Poetry
  • Epic Poetry
  • Error
  • Iambic Trimeter
  • Imitation
  • Lampoon
  • Lyric Poetry
  • Magnitude
  • Medium
  • Mode
  • Object
  • Plot
  • Poetry
  • Reasoning
  • Recognition
  • Resolution
  • Reversal
  • Rhetoric
  • Simple Plot
  • Spectacle
  • Tragedy
  • Unity
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  • Oedipus Rex  Symbol Icon
    Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex

Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Rex, which Aristotle mentions throughout Poetics, symbolizes the superiority of tragedy over other forms of poetry. As the story goes, Oedipus unknowingly murders his father and marries his…

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