imitation · Atlas

in the texts

RepublicClassical · Greek

The act of a speaker or poet assimilating his own diction or bearing to that of another, contrasted with pure narration.

It is in this way, my dear fellow, I said, that without imitation simple narration results.

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and so his style will depend wholly on imitation in voice and gesture, or will contain but a little of pure narration.

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But if the poet should conceal himself nowhere, then his entire poetizing and narration would have been accomplished without imitation.

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SophistClassical · Greek

The branch of fantastic art in which a person imitates another using his own body and voice as the instrument, itself later split by knowledge versus opinion.

Let us, then, classify this part under the name of mimetic art;

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But it is surely worth while to consider, Theaetetus, that the mimetic art also has two parts;

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And yet what division can we imagine more complete than that which separates knowledge and ignorance?

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