Scholars consider the first sequel to this work to have been written by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and disagree over whether a new section should be started after it describes a "wandering merchant, or tiller of fertile fields, Colchian or Assyrian, from Argos or Thebes.
Scholars consider the first sequel to this work to have been written by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and disagree over whether a new section should be started after it describes a "wandering merchant, or tiller of fertile fields, Colchian or Assyrian, from Argos or Thebes." This work's author mentions "taking purges for madness each spring" before lamenting that the central subject is not worth it,  and warns Peleus and Telephus, "speak inappropriately/And I'll laugh or fall asleep." It opens by asking if people wouldn't (*) laugh if they saw "a human head/On a horse's neck" or a painting of a woman that looks like "the tail of a black fish." The famous line "good Homer nods" is found in line 359 of this work, which dictates that a single purple patch is sufficient and that  plays should be five acts long. Famous for comparing its subject to painting and for describing the technique of in medias res, for 10 points, identify this verse treatise and followup to Aristotle's Poetics, written by the Roman poet Horace.
Scholars consider the first sequel to this work to have been written by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and disagree over whether a new section should be started after it describes a "wandering merchant, or tiller of fertile fields, Colchian or Assyrian, from Argos or Thebes.
Ars Poetica [or Art of Poetry; or On the Nature of Poetry]