#poetics

¶ Why the translators skipped Greek tragedy, and what Ibn Rushd made of Aristotle’s Poetics

At the statue of Ibn Rushd near Córdoba's old walls I often tell visitors about Borges's story "Averroes' Search". Borges imagines the great commentator puzzling over two words in Aristotle's Poetics, "tragedy" and "comedy", for which his world has no examples, while…