Literary genres and judgements of taste: some remarks on Aristotle's remarks about the poetry of Empedocles

In Erler Michael (ed.), Argument Und Literarische Form in Antiker Philosophie. De Gruyter. pp. 305-314 (2013)
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In this paper I review four texts in which Aristotle comments on Empedocles ' writing style. I show that Aristotle thought that Empedocles was a fine poet. That is fine, if a poet is what you want

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