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The Good Poem According to Philodemus (Hardcover)
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The Good Poem According to Philodemus (Hardcover)
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This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first
century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives
in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his
treatise was primarily polemical and lacks positive exposition, his
views are often recoverable from a careful reading of the debates,
occasional direct evidence, and attention to his basic Epicurean
commitments. His main critical principle is that form and content
are inseparable and mutually-reinforcing: a change in one means a
change in the other. The poet uses this marriage of form and
content to create the psychological effect of the poem in the
audience. This effect is hard to pin down exactly. Poems produce
"additional thoughts" in the audience, and these entertain them. It
seems clear that Philodemus expected good poets to arrange form and
content suggestively, so that the poems could exert a lasting pull
on the minds of the audience. Additionally, this book summarizes
the views of Philodemus' opponents, the technical terminology of
literary criticism in the Hellenistic period, and the history of
Epicureanism's engagement with poetics. Epicurus did not write an
On Poems but Metrodorus did, and this is probably Philodemus'
touchstone for his own views. Zeno of Sidon, Demetrius Laco, Siro,
and other Epicureans are examined as well. The book concludes with
an appendix of topics examined by Philodemus, such as genre,
mimesis, "appropriateness," utility, and various technical terms.
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