shizuoka « Neoclassical critics engaged in detailed discussion of vraisemblance, verisimilitude, or
shizuoka « Neoclassical critics engaged in detailed discussion of vraisemblance, verisimilitude, or probability [in poetry and tragedy]. They distinguished various categories. Some events were both possible and probable: thus, when Euripides’ Medea kills her brother, her action, though atrocious, is probable because it is consistent with her wicked character. When Virgil makes the god of love assume the likeness of Aeneas’ son Ascanius in order to persuade Dido to fall in love with Aeneas, this is possible but not probable, because the inflammable Dido would have fallen in love anyway without such a deception. When Aeneas and Dido meet, this is probable but not possible, because they actually lived in different centuries. And when Aeneas’ ships are transformed into sea-nymphs, this is both impossible and improbable. » ( Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 )My portfolio: SHIZUOKA -- source link
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