Knowing, getting to know and recognizing: lessons on poetic epistemology

Abstract

This paper examises a passage from Poetics (1453b 27), in which Aristotle employs distinct verbs of knowledge (oída and gignósko) to characterize the tragic action. With the support of excerpts from the Greek tragedies, I propose to relate them to the concept of recognition (anagnórisis), linking it to the scope of epistemology