This document provides a summary of Classical Criticism from ancient Greek and Roman times. It discusses the views of important classical critics like Plato and Aristotle. Plato saw art as inferior copies removed from truth, while Aristotle viewed art/poetry as pleasurable imitation that can provide knowledge. The document also contrasts classical and romantic styles, examines Aristotle's theory of tragedy, and provides background on classical works and their influence.

1. Classical Criticism Presentation -Prepared by- D. Paragkumar Dave- M.A. ( Eng.) [email_address] Blog:- paragkumardave@blogspot.com

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27. Aristotle :-( 384-322 B.C.) Aristotle was the son of a well known medical practitioner, Nicomachus who came from the Asklepian trading located in Macedonia. At the age of seventeen, Aristotle became a student of Plato. Later in Athens, he established his school and research, funded by Alexander, on music, botany, Zoology, medicine, Mathematics and Logic. His cosmology, physics, astronomy and theology were complied at his academy. The dialogues now lost were modeled on Plato’s and were called On Rhetoric, On Soul, On Philosophy, On Metaphysics etc. His prominent works are Analytics, Physics, De Aniima, Methaphysics, Nichomian Ethics, Politics, Ryheotoric and Poetics (fragment). He was really a revelatory thinker as compared to Plato.