Poetics : Characters
Poetics is a notable literary work by Aristotle. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, and various study materials of Poetics.
Characters
Main Characters
Aristotle: Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived from 384 to 322 B.C.E.
Oedipus: Oedipus is a mythical Greek king and the main character in Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex.
Iphigeneia: Iphigeneia is a princess in Greek mythology, Orestes’s sister, and a character in Euripides’s Iphigeneia at Aulis and Iphigeneia in Tauris.
Odysseus: Odysseus is a legendary hero in Greek mythology and the main character in Homer’s Odyssey.
Sophocles: Sophocles was an ancient Greek playwright of tragedy who lived in the fifth century B.C.E.
Homer: Homer was a Greek writer who is thought to have lived between the 12th and eighth centuries B.C.E.
Achilles: Achilles is a hero in Greek mythology and a character in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad.
Aegisthus: Aegisthus is a figure in Greek mythology. He is Orestes and Iphigeneia’s stepfather, and he appears in Homer’s Odyssey, Aeschylus’s Oresteia, and Sophocles’s Electra.
Aeschylus: Aeschylus was an Ancient Greek playwright of tragedy who lived in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E.
Ajax: Ajax is a hero in Greek mythology and a character in Homer’s Iliad and Sophocles’s Ajax.
Creon: Creon is a king in Greek mythology and a character in Sophocles’s Antigone.
Hector: Hector is a prince in Greek mythology and a character in Homer’s Iliad.
Medea: Medea is a figure in Greek mythology and the main character in Euripides’s Medea.
Menelaus: Menelaus is a king in Greek mythology. He is a major character in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Aristotle references Euripides’s Menelaus in Orestes.
Merope: Merope is a queen in Greek mythology and a character in Euripides’s lost tragedy Cresphontes, in which Merope nearly kills her son unwittingly but stops when she recognizes him.
Orestes: Orestes is a figure in Greek mythology and Iphigeneia’s brother.
Minor Characters
Euripides: Euripides was a Greek playwright of tragedy during the fifth century B.C.E.
Aristophanes: Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek playwright of comedy who lived during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.
Herodotus: Herodotus was a Greek historian from the fifth century B.C.E.