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Greek Mythology and Religion

Poetics

by Aristotle · S. H. Butcher (trans.)

Aristotle's fourth-century BCE treatise on poetry, chiefly tragedy, defining it as the imitation of a serious action that arouses pity and fear. It discusses plot, character, reversal and recognition, often with Sophocles' Oedipus as model. Butcher's edition and translation, first published in 1895, is in the public domain.

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