A POESIA COMO DIEGESE: A PROPÓSITO DE REPÚBLICA 392d

Abstract

The paper focuses on the use of the term diegesis in Plato’s Republic 392d, and presentsa survey of the uses of the verb diegoumai in the previous authors and contemporaries of Plato. Itshows that it should not be understood only as “to narrate”, but as all kinds of account carried outby a diegetes. It concludes that the importance of defining precisely what characterizes the poeticdiegesis comes from the fact that diegesis is also part of the lexis of historians, doctors, orators, andphilosophers, but only the diction (lexis) of the poets is simply diegesis.