Paradigmi condivisi o coincidenze tragiche? Il fr. 6 K.-A. di Timocle e la Poetica di Aristotele

All the tragic characters mentioned in fr. 6 Kassel-Austin of Timokles are also mentioned by Aristotle in different passages of Poetics as examples (only the mention of Oineus is ambiguous). The reference to the Phineids both in the comic fragment and in the philosophical text is interesting, in particular because we do not have other evidence of this tragedy. Aristotle probably included in his treatise examples also from recent (and maybe successful) tragedies: the Phineids would have been a late insertion, made approximately at the same time that Timokles was producing his comedy.