The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy cleansed the heart through pity and terror, purging us of our petty concerns and ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019), pp. 1092-1111 (20 pages) Using Aristotle’s definition of the tragedy as a metaphor, the essay interprets the tragedy of the commons to ...

28, 1917 On the Second Book of Aristotle's Poetic... On the Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics and the Source of Theophrastus' Definition of Tragedy This is the metadata section. Skip to content ...

The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy cleansed the heart through pity and terror, purging us of our petty concerns and ...