ποίησις (poiesis)
Short definition (LSJ): of Poetry, ἡ τῶν διθυράμβων π., τῆς τραγῳδίας, τῶν ἐπῶν, Pherecr.145.10,
Full entry: Lexicon.
43 occurrences of this form in 16 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Gorgias
- Symposium
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Platonic Questions
- Sirach
- Frogs
- On the Mysteries
- Epinomis
- Phaedrus
- Republic
- Sophist
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
Example passages
……γινομένου τοῦ ἑτέρου, ἀλλὰ λόγοις μόνον, συνεζεῦχθαι δεῖ τῷ εἴδει τὸ διάφορον: ἡμεῖς δὲ λαμβάνειν τὴν διαφορὰν ἀδυνατοῦμεν. καὶ εἰ μὲν ἡ ποίησις ἔχει τὸ εἰκῆ τοῦ ὁποσαοῦν, ἄλλος λόγος: εἰ δὲ μεμέτρηται, ὁπόσα τινὰ εἴη, τὸ ποσὸν ὡρισμένον ἔσται τῇ τῶν λόγων ἁπάντων ἐξελίξει καὶ ἀναπλώσει: ὥστε, ὅταν παύσηται πάντα, ἀρχὴ ἄλλη: ὁπόσον γὰρ δεῖ……
…ἔχοντος καὶ ἐχομένου, ὥσπερ πρᾶξίς τις ἢ κίνησις (ὅταν γὰρ τὸ μὲν ποιῇ τὸ δὲ ποιῆται, ἔστι ποίησις μεταξύ· οὕτω καὶ τοῦ ἔχοντος ἐσθῆτα καὶ τῆς ἐχομένης ἐσθῆτος ἔστι μεταξὺ ἕξις)·—ταύτην μὲν οὖν φανερὸν ὅτι οὐκ ἐνδέχεται ἔχειν ἕξιν (εἰς ἄπειρον γὰρ βαδιεῖται, εἰ τοῦ ἐχομένου ἔσται ἔχειν τὴν…
…τοῦ δʼ ἐνδεχομένου ἄλλως ἔχειν ἔστι τι καὶ ποιητὸν καὶ πρακτόν· ἕτερον δʼ ἐστὶ ποίησις καὶ πρᾶξις (πιστεύομεν δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖς ἐξωτερικοῖς λόγοις)· ὥστε καὶ ἡ μετὰ λόγου ἕξις πρακτικὴ ἕτερόν ἐστι τῆς μετὰ λόγου ποιητικῆς…