Description:
This book explains why Aristotle does not hold OEDIPUS to be the best tragedy in general in the POETICS. Rather he means what he explicitly states in Chapter 14: The happily-ending plays like CRESPHONTES are the finest.
Brief description: Gregory Scott received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, with a dissertation on Aristotle's book known as the POETICS (supervisor Francis Sparshott). There he studied under one of the great commentators of the POETICS, Daniel de Montmollin, along with Joseph Owens ( Aristotle's METAPHYSICS) and Brad Inwood (Pre-Socratics). After teaching in philosophy departments in the US and Canada and having had a background in ballet, he directed the Doctoral Program in Dance Education at New York University (NYU). He has also been a Visiting Research Scholar in Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin and a Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy at Princeton University.