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Poetics by Aristotle
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"Since tragedy is a representation of people who are better than we are, poets should copy good portrait-painters, who portray a person’s features and offer a good likeness but nonetheless make him look handsomer than he is. In the same way, a poet exhibiting people who are irascible and indolent should show them as they are, and yet portray them as good men—in the way that Homer made Achilles both a good man and a paradigm of stubbornness."