According to Aristotle, the purpose of tragedy is to elicit a "catharsis" in the audience members to elicit feelings of sorrow and terror in them and then purify them of these feelings so they leave the theatre feeling purified and uplifted and with a deeper comprehension of the ways of gods and humans.
According to Aristotle, tragedy is the most sophisticated kind of poetry that deals with lofty subjects, whereas comedy is the most sophisticated form of poetry that deals with mundane subjects. In a brief and hypothetical history, he traces the development of tragedy from dithyrambic songs to the god Dionysus.
A sizable choir, sometimes with a narrator, sang dythyrambs. Aeschylus created tragedy by interacting the narrator with a second actor. By adding a third actor, Sophocles further innovated, and tragedy gradually transitioned to its modern theatrical form.
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