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Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus al-Qunnāʾī ( Arabic: ﺍﺑﻮ ﺑﺸﺮ ﻣﺘﺎ ﺑﻦ ﻳﻮﻧﺲ القنائي; c. 870-20 June 940) was an Arab Christian philosopher who played an important role in the transmission of the works of Aristotle to the Islamic world. He is famous for founding the Baghdad school of Aristotelian philosophers .
Commentaries on Aristotle refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Aristotle. The pupils of Aristotle were the first to comment on his writings, a tradition which was continued by the Peripatetic school throughout the Hellenistic period and the Roman era.
Poetics. Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, [1] though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly. [2] [3] Poetics is distinguished from hermeneutics by its focus on the synthesis of non-semantic elements in a text rather ...
On the Soul. "Expositio et quaestiones" in Aristoteles De Anima ( Jean Buridan, c. 1362) On the Soul ( Greek: Περὶ Ψυχῆς, Peri Psychēs; Latin: De Anima) is a major treatise written by Aristotle c. 350 BC. [ 1] His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different ...
Kitāb al-Hayawān. The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān ( Arabic: كتاب الحيوان, lit. ' The Book of Animals ') is an Arabic translation of treatises (Arabic: مقالات, maqālāt) of Aristotle 's: Historia Animalium: treatises 1–10; De Partibus Animalium: treatises 11–14; De Generatione Animalium: treatises 15–19.
Transmission of the Greek Classics. The ideas of Aristotle and Plato, shown in Raphael 's The School of Athens, were partly lost to Western Europeans for centuries. The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1]
Kural translations by language. v. t. e. The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.