which strike us as terrible or pitiful
I find this to be dangerous generalization and more over cements that this is a western view of the world. While we may mind honor killing tragic, those that are ingrained deeply into those ideals might not share out sentiment.
Reversal of the Situation,
This sounds like the early idea of a climax in a plot structure. Modern times support the idea of it being the best form of recognition since most talked about moments, or most "clipped" moments of movies are that of the climax.
But Homer, as in all else he is of surpassing merit, here too -whether from art or natural genius -seems to have happily discerned the truth.
Aristotle seems to be a really big Homer fan. Knowing Homer he probably deserves it, but is it possible that the entire poetics doesn't have some aspects of imitating reality in the form of how Aristotle presents it?
This may suffice as to the number and nature of the various modes of imitation.
If we believe combat is an "art", such as Sun Tzu would put it, regional differences are still present in war. In the realm of fencing, one of the more graceful fighting realms in my opinion, there were differences in Spanish vs. Italian fencing. We talk about how art imitates life, and it stands that even the creation of art does so as well by holding up regional differences.
add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak ofelegiac poets, or epic
For some reason the concept of metal or electronic music came to mind with the distinctions between also the sub genres. Those who don't pay attention to the details may lump them all under one classification, when those to delve into them find the difference that can vastly alter and distinguish certain areas of the genre. For some reason this modern example kept coming to my head when reading about poetry vs. writing.