According to Aristotle, What Made Oedipus Rex and Medea Great

question 48

Multiple Choice

According to Aristotle, what made Oedipus Rex and Medea great works of art was that

• A)they were outstanding examples of the Dionysian type of art.
• B)they made us aware of the gap between the transcendent reality of the forms of beauty and goodness and the real world.
• C)their characters and plots effectively evoked and cleansed their audiences of basic emotions such as fear and pity.
• D)they taught people that the material world was passing away and so was of little value.

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