Citations:katharsis


 * 2001: Rupert Woodfin [text], Judy Groves [illustrations], and Richard Appignanesi [ed.], Introducing Aristotle, page 157 (Icon Books UK, Totem Books USA; ISBN 1840462337
 * Aristotle seems the first not only to define what art properly is but also what it does. For him, the proper function (ergon, literally “the work”) of tragic drama is to arouse “pity and fear” and at the same time to effect the katharsis or purgation of these emotions.