Open AccessCompaixão e Terror em Poética 1449b
Author(s) -
José Gonçalves Poddis
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.2..90-98
Subject(s) - pity , poetics , tragedy (event) , style (visual arts) , order (exchange) , literature , philosophy , art , poetry , finance , economics
This paper is a brief commentary on the words “fear” and “pity”, which define the tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics, and its occurrence in tragic texts. The aim is to get a statistical occurrence of these terms in order to clarify Aristotle’s understanding of this poetical style, and its use by playwrights of the fifth century BC.