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<p><b>Imitation</b> is the doctrine of <a href="page.php?w=artistic_creativity">artistic creativity</a> according to which the creative process should be based on the close imitation of the <a href="page.php?w=masterpiece">masterpiece</a>s of the preceding <a href="page.php?w=author">author</a>s. This concept was first formulated by <a href="page.php?w=Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a> in the first century BCE as <a href="page.php?w=Dionysian_imitatio">imitatio</a>, and has since dominated for almost two thousand years the</p><p>
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