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I canoni di autori antichi: alle origini del concetto di classico
2006-08-21T09:38:10Z
Abstract
The term classic has had fortune equal to the difficulty of establishing its meaning. If we go back to where the term originated, it can be noted that a central aspect of the term had been working in antiquity. The tendency to construct canons of works and authors took place in the Alexandrian age and soon interacted with the Aristotelian principle that each literary genre was going, through a number of authors, to reach its telos. Such a set of critical views was also the germ of 'classicism', understood as a glorification of unity, proportion and measure, from the Ars poetica to the oratorical Atticism.