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WHY DID THE MARGITES DISAPPEAR?

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Summary:Taking advantage of literary testimonies and the most recent fragments found in Oxyrhynchus, this article will seek to understand the reasons why the Margites, a work of an enormous importance for Aristotle, lost its original value, ending up disappearing almost completely from the occidental literary canon still in the first centuries of our era.
Main Authors:Abrantes, Miguel Carvalho
Subject:Aristotle Poetics Margites Aristóteles Poética Margites
Year:2018
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:unknown
Associated institution:Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Language:Portuguese
Origin:Boletim de Estudos Clássicos
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Summary:Taking advantage of literary testimonies and the most recent fragments found in Oxyrhynchus, this article will seek to understand the reasons why the Margites, a work of an enormous importance for Aristotle, lost its original value, ending up disappearing almost completely from the occidental literary canon still in the first centuries of our era.