διήγησις

diegesis

narration, narrative

Appears 16 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 12
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 1354a1–1355b24

1354b18
Book III 11
Chapter 13 1414a31–1414b18

1414a37
1414a39
1414b14

Chapter 16 1416b16–1417b20

1416b16
1416b27
1416b30
1417a8
1417a16
1417b12
1417b13

Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39

1418a18
Poetics 2
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Chapter 19 1456a33–1456b19

1456b11
Chapter 24 1459b7–1460b5

1459b26
Categories 1
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Chapter 12 14a26–14b23

14b3
History of Animals 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 18 601a23–601b8

601b2

Dictionary (LSJ)

διήγησις, εως, ἡ, A. narration, narrative, Pl. R. 392d, Phdr. 246a, Aristeas 1, Ev.Luc. 1.1, etc.; in a speech, statement of the case, Arist. Rh. 1416b29, Zeno Stoic. 1.23.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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