In plays, then, the episodes are short;
i.e.ic poetry they serve to lengthen out the poem. The argument of
the _Odyssey_ is not a long one.
A certain man has been abroad many years; Poseidon i.e.er on the
watch for him, and he is all alone. Matters at home too have come to
this, that his substance is being wasted and his son's death plotted
by suitors to his wife. Then he arrives there himself after his
grievous sufferings; reveals himself, and falls on hi.e.emies; and
the end is his salvation and their death. This being all that is
proper to the _Odyssey_, everything else in it i.e.isode.
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(4) There is a further point to be borne in mind. Every tragedy is in
part Complication and in part Denouement; the incidents before the
opening scene, and often certain also of those within the play,
forming the Complication; and the rest the Denouement. By Complication
I mean all from the beginning of the story to the point just before
the change in the hero's fortunes; by Denouement, all from the
beginning of the change to the end. In the _Lynceus_ of Theodectes,
for instance, the Complication includes, together with the presupposed
incidents, the seizure of the child and that in turn of the parents;
and the Denouement all from the indictment for the murder to the end.
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