This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both addresses old issues raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts might relate to Aristotelian philosophy. In the past, on the contrary, Aristotle's Poetics gives us no guarantee of seeing this play as the "perfect" tragedy of Schneider or as the "greatest tragedy" of Sophocles. It is rather, in Aristotle's eyes, a collection of exemplary tragic clichés. s. 2. Unfortunate form, unhappy content: the Oedipus problem in 2