The order of the books ( or the teachings from which they are composed ) is not certain, but this list was derived from analysis of Aristotle's writings.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

In Persia, works such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi provided evidence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle's works.

In the last century Aristotle's analysis has formed the basis for numerous TV and film-writing guides.

Thomas was emphatically Aristotelian, he adopted Aristotle's analysis of physical objects, his view of place, time and motion, his proof of the prime mover, his cosmology, his account of sense perception and intellectual knowledge, and even parts of his moral philosophy.

According to Aristotle's analysis, there are three kinds of things which come to be present in the soul that virtue is: a feeling ( pathos ), an inborn predisposition or capacity ( dunamis ), or a stable disposition which has been acquired ( hexis ).

" Aristotle's detailed analysis of this problem involves his study of tragic literature and its paradoxical nature to be shocking as well as having poetic value.

The introduction of quantification, needed to solve the problem of multiple generality, rendered impossible the kind of subject-predicate analysis that governed Aristotle's account, although there is a renewed interest in term logic, attempting to find calculi in the spirit of Aristotle's syllogistic but with the generality of modern logics based on the quantifier.

Some researchers, such as Brenda Laurel, emphasized how similar online dialogue was to a play, and applied Aristotle's model of drama to their analysis of computers for collaboration.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

Many have linked these plays to Aristotle's precept about tragedy: that the protagonist must be an admirable but flawed character, with the audience able to understand and sympathize with the character.

" Some, including drama historian Brian Arkins in his " Heavy Seneca: his Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies ," have also pointed out their Senecan nature, as differentiated from Aristotle's principles and Greek tragedy.

In addition to these, Shakespeare also wrote a number of plays about English history, such as Richard II, which can be considered a tragedy, as the hero of the play exhibits many of Aristotle's definitions of what is required to obtain " tragic " status.

Excluding the criteria of medium, Aristotle's system distinguished four types of classical genres: tragedy, epic, comedy, and parody.

Excluding the criteria of medium, Aristotle's system distinguished four types of classical genres: tragedy ( superior-dramatic dialogue ), epic ( superior-mixed narrative ), comedy ( inferior-dramatic dialogue ), and parody ( inferior-mixed narrative ).

Furthermore Aristotle's works on rhetoric and poetics were of the utmost importance for the understating of tragedy, poetry, public discussions etc.

In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics ( 335 BCE ), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general ( where the tragic divides against epic and lyric ) or at the scale of the drama ( where tragedy is opposed to comedy ).

The most fundamental change has been the rejection of Aristotle's dictum that true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status.

Silk wrote in his book “ Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond ” that “ Aristotle's theory of tragedy and its underlying philosophical tenets have little in common with the tragic philosophy of German idealism, as analyzed by Szondi.

In his introduction, Milton discusses Aristotle's definition of tragedy and sets out his own paraphrase of it to connect it to Samson Agonistes:

The form of tragedy depicted in The Monk's Tale is not that argued in Aristotle's Poetics, but " the medieval idea that the protagonist is victim rather than hero, raised up and then cast down by the workings of Fortune.

Aristotle's method in the Poetics, then, does suggest that we should isolate the work.

Most of his written musical observations are found in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.

" This notion of criticism ultimately goes back to Aristotle's Poetics as a theory of literature.

Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.

Notably, the existing fragments of Aristotle's Poetics describe three genres of poetry — the epic, the comic, and the tragic — and develop rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre, based on the underlying purposes of the genre.

The classical unities, Aristotelian unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.

The terms " comedy " and " satire " became synonymous after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

The practice of literary theory became a profession in the 20th century, but it has historical roots that run as far back as ancient Greece ( Aristotle's Poetics is an often cited early example ), ancient India ( Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra ), ancient Rome ( Longinus's On the Su

Aristotle's Poetics clearly defines aspects of literature and introduces many literary terms still used today.

The birth of Renaissance criticism was in 1498, with the recovery of classic texts, most notably, Giorgio Valla's Latin translation of Aristotle's Poetics.

Lodovico Castelvetro was one of the most influential Renaissance critics who wrote commentaries on Aristotle's Poetics in 1570.

* Online edition of Aristotle's Poetics.

The Classical unities of time, action and place were the main principles of French neo-classical drama during part of the 17th century. They were introduced by Jean Mairet after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics, and the critic Castelvetro insisted that playwrights and directors adhere to the unities.

Equally important to later developments are texts on poetry, rhetoric, and sophistry, including many of Plato's dialogues, such as Cratylus, Ion, Gorgias, Lesser Hippias, and Republic, along with Aristotle's Poetics, Rhetoric, and On Sophistical Refutations.

* Aristotle's second book of Poetics, dealing with comedy

* Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features a murder mystery whose solution hinges on the contents of Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics ( dealing with comedy ).

" Gerald F. Else, " Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument, Cambridge, Mass., 1957, p. 440 made the following argument against the " purgation " theory: " It presupposes that we come to the tragic drama ( unconsciously, if you will ) as patients to be cured, relieved, restored to psychic health.

The following works can be usefully consulted in this regard: L. Golden, " Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis ," Atlanta, 1992, S. Halliwell, " Aristotle's Poetics ," London, 1986, D. Keesey, " On Some Recent Interpretations of Catharsis ," The Classical World ", ( 1979 ) 72. 4, 193-205.

The clarification theory of catharsis would be fully consistent, as other interpretations are not, with Aristotle's argument in chapter 4 of the " Poetics " ( 1448b4-17 ) that the essential pleasure of mimesis is the intellectual pleasure of " learning and inference.

In the French theater, tragedians such as Molière and Racine wrote plays on mythological or classical historical subjects and subjected them to the strict rules of the classical unities derived from Aristotle's Poetics.

In Umberto Eco's puzzle-mystery set in the 1320s, The Name of the Rose, there is some debate among the monks about Aristotle's Poetics ( Second Day: Prime ).

But the main character, William of Baskerville, knew that Aristotle's Poetics had recently been translated directly from Greek into Latin by William of Moerbeke.