![]() 163, the Delian maidens are said to ‘know how to imitate the voice and the dance of all people’, which seems to mean that they spoke and danced in the manner various peoples do, thus that they acted like them. For instance, in the Delian Hymn to Apollo, v. On the other hand, the little we know about the early uses of the verb mimeisthai and its cognates suggest that these terms belonged originally to the sphere of mousiké or performing actions of various sorts. ![]() What should one understand by the Greek word which is usually rendered by ‘imitation’ ? Both Plato and Aristotle tend to treat painting as offering the best illustration of what is to be meant by mimesis (so does Plato in Republic X, after making Socrates say, in 595c7- 8, that he wants to explain what mimesis is in general and so does Aristotle in the first chapters of his Poetics notice that also in Laws II, 668d ff., Plato illustrates correctness in mimesis by reference to painting). discussion in Nehamas, Plato on imitation, cit., pp. 258-59.ġOne topic which was frequently touched upon in the previous exposition but not dealt with in detail is that of imitation ( mimesis). ![]()
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