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    The Elements of Tragedy
    In Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Elements of Tragedy and Its Definition Plot and Character Simple and Complex Plots Good and Bad Tragic Plots Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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    Of other ancient writers, call into question the traditional view that katharsis in the Poetics is a homeopathic process - one in which pity and fear affect emotions like themselves. She maintains, instead, that Aristotle considered katharsis to be an allopathic process in which pity and fear purge the soul of shameless, antisocial, and aggressive emotions. While exploring katharsis, Tragic Pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the.
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    Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is …Read more
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    The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (review)
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 101 (1): 106-107. 2007.
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    Aristotle on Comedy (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 7 236-239. 1987.
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    The Aesthetics of Mimesis (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 23 (1): 235-239. 2003.
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    Plato on Poetry: Ion. P Murray
    The Classical Review 48 (1): 20-21. 1998.
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    Tragédie, thumos, et plaisir esthétique
    Les Etudes Philosophiques 67 (4): 451. 2003.
    Résumé — Dans cet article, je montre que l’une des fonctions de la tragédie est de procurer un entraînement au thumos , en l’habituant à devenir amical plutôt qu’agressif envers les philoi . Je donne d’abord un bref aperçu des thèses sur le thumos exposées dans les œuvres éthiques et politiques d’Aristote. Ensuite, j’étudie la relation entre le thumos et les actes de violence entre proches, qui constituent le sujet de la tragédie, en montrant comment la pitié et la crainte ressenties en réponse …Read more
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    Plato, The Symposium (review)
    The Classical Review 50 (2): 583-583. 2000.
  • Plato's Greatest Accusation against Poetry
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 9 (n/a): 39. 1983.
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    Aristotle’s Poetics (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (1): 268-272. 1995.
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    Plato on Poetry (review)
    The Classical Review 47 (1): 20-21. 1997.
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    Family Friendship in Aristotle’s Ethics
    Ancient Philosophy 21 (1): 113-132. 2001.
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    Wine and Catharsis_ of the Emotions in Plato's _Laws
    Classical Quarterly 36 (02): 421-. 1986.
    Plato's views on tragedy depend in large part on his views about the ethical consequences of emotional arousal. In the Republic, Plato treats the desires we feel in everyday life to weep and feel pity as appetites exactly like those for food or sex, whose satisfactions are ‘replenishments’. Physical desire is not reprehensible in itself, but is simply non-rational, not identical with reason but capable of being brought into agreement with it. Some desires, like that for simple and wholesome food…Read more
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    Plato's Greatest Accusation against Poetry
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (sup1): 39-62. 1983.
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    Aristotle’s Poetics (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (1): 268-272. 1995.
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    The Symposium (review)
    The Classical Review 50 (1): 20-22. 2000.
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    Pleasure, Tragedy and Aristotelian Psychology
    Classical Quarterly 35 (02): 349-. 1985.
    Aristotle's Rhetoric defines fear as a kind of pain or disturbance and pity as a kind of pain . In his Poetics, however, pity and fear are associated with pleasure: ‘ The poet must provide the pleasure that comes from pity and fear by means of imitation’ . The question of the relationship between pleasure and pain in Aristotle's aesthetics has been studied primarily in connection with catharsis. Catharsis, however, raises more problems than it solves. Aristotle says nothing at all about the trag…Read more
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    Plato and Aristotle on Poetry (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 10 (1): 138-140. 1990.
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    Aristotle on Comedy (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 7 236-239. 1987.
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    Wine and Catharsis_ of the Emotions in Plato's _Laws
    Classical Quarterly 36 (2): 421-437. 1986.
    Plato's views on tragedy depend in large part on his views about the ethical consequences of emotional arousal. In theRepublic, Plato treats the desires we feel in everyday life to weep and feel pity as appetites exactly like those for food or sex, whose satisfactions are ‘replenishments’. Physical desire is not reprehensible in itself, but is simplynon-rational, not identical with reason but capable of being brought into agreement with it. Some desires, like that for simple and wholesome food, …Read more
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    The Art of Plato (review)
    The Classical Review 47 (1): 33-34. 1997.
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    Plato on Music, Soul and Body (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 32 (1): 194-198. 2012.
  • Aristotle: survey of thought
    In Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--95. 1998.