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quarta-feira 24 de janeiro de 2024

Ποιεῖν, ποίησις, ποιητική. Poiein means “to make or do”; poiesis is the abstract noun built on this verb: “making, production”; poietike is the adjective based on the abstract noun: “productive.” A poietes (ποιητής) is a person who makes something; a poiema (ποίημα) is the object made. Plato   talks about the poietes of a bed in Republic X, and of the Demiourgos as the poietes of the universe in Timaeus 28c, but generally poietes and poiema refer to literary productions.

[PREUS, A. Historical dictionary of ancient Greek philosophy. Second Edition ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015]