Aristotle and Catharsis
I’m in the library trying to do some research for a paper in my Aesthetics class. I found a book that looked promising in the database, searched for it, found it, and went back to where I was working.
I flipped to the index and found the passages about catharsis, and went to read those pages. One problem: the author switches between ancient Greek and English whenever he feels like it.
Sample:
“[Greek word] is the new formulation of the principle [(Greek words) and many more Greek words]. We saw that the long subsequent note betrayed a new special interest on Aristotle’s part in the term [Greek word].”
This book is useless to me. Every part where the author says something important, it is in Greek. I have no idea what’s going on.
