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Quotation from Poetics by Aristotle

“through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions”

Aristotle

Poetics, Chapter VI, trans. S. H. Butcher

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The close of the definition; Butcher renders catharsis as purgation, one of several disputed readings.

Citation: "through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions" — Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter VI, trans. S. H. Butcher. (id aristotle-poetics-q3)

Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.

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