Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy /
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotleβsss poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Platoβsss critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as respons...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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