ABSTRACT
Mimesis is part of the drama or theatre of meaning in the liminal space of mutual creation between author and audience. Communication occurs though the codes of language, literature and reading in rhetoric, poetics, philosophy, history and the like, and mimesis is part of the liberalia studia, or seven liberal arts, which are those of free people and were considered from antiquity through modernity. This chapter presents a discussion of Plato which is based on Nickolas Pappas' articulation of Plato's aesthetics as something that tells about ethics. It also discusses in Textual Imitation, both Plato and Aristotle emphasized art as mimetic. Aristotle's Poetics employs mimesis extensively without defining the term and narrows his discussion from philosophical mimesis to mimetic arts like poetry, music and dancing. In Poetics, Aristotle includes copying and creating in his examination of mimesis as expressing the probable or necessary and the universal.
