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Περὶ ποιητικῆς

Περὶ ποιητικῆς Aristotle
7 but Orestes says himself what the poet wants and not what the plot requires. So this comes near to the fault already mentioned, for he might just as well have actually brought some tokens.To prove his identity Orestes mentions Pelops’ lance and other things from home, which is much the same as producing visible tokens. And there is the voice of the shuttleWhen Philomela’s tongue was cut out, she wove in embroidery the story of her rape by Tereus. Thus the facts were discovered to her sister, Procne, by deliberate demonstration. In Sophocles’ Tereus.
8 The third kind is due to memory, to showing distress on seeing something. An example of this is the scene in the Cyprians by Dicaeogenes; on seeing the picture he burst into tearsTeucer, returning to Salamis in disguise and seeing a portrait of his dead father Telamon, burst into tears and was thus discovered. So, too, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Julia is discovered because she swoons on hearing Valentine offer Sylvia to his rival.: and again in the Tale of Alcinous, Hom. Od. 8.521ff. hearing the minstrel he remembered and burst into tears; and thus they were recognized.

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