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020			_a9781139018258 (ebook)
020			_z9780521198790 (hardback)
020			_z9780521168687 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aPN1040 _b.H43 2013
082	0	0	_a808.1 _223
100	1		_aHeath, Malcolm, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAncient Philosophical Poetics / _cMalcolm Heath.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (204 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aKey Themes in Ancient Philosophy
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWhat is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with the dialogue's central themes. Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of his understanding of poetry as a natural human behaviour and an intrinsically valuable component of a good human life. Two chapters trace the development of the later Platonist tradition from Plutarch to Plotinus, Longinus and Porphyry, exploring its intellectual debts to Epicurean, allegorical and Stoic approaches to poetry. It will be essential reading for classicists as well as ancient philosophers and modern philosophers of art and aesthetics.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Ancient, in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521198790
830		0	_aKey Themes in Ancient Philosophy.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139018258
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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