... Aristophanes. These drams of the Athenian writers entertained in addition to informing the Greeks. Athenian stories also influenced the western culture. The epic poems of an old bard named Homer contributed an everlasting effect on all. The Iliad was an epic that depicted heroes and their trials at the time of the Trojan war. His poem left the listeners with a powerful ideal called ... ...

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... : its growth and development has been guided by unchanging, natural laws, and the Poetics seeks to uncover these laws. Aristotle is not trying to condemn Robert Burns for writing love poems; he is simply trying to catalog the different kinds of poetry that existed in his time. They all employ language, rhythm, and harmony in some way or another, they all ... deal with people who are engaging in certain kinds of action, and they all involve some sort of direct or indirect narrative. Whether something is an epic poem, a comedy, or a tragedy depends on how it fits within these categories. F...

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