Here are the two quotations we discussed in class:
From The Poetics:
“Comedy is the imitation of people who are rather inferior [in the sense that they are laughable], for the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive”
From The Tractatus Coislinianus (argued to be a summary of The Poetics II):
“Comedy is a imitation of an action that is laughable and lacking in magnitude…accomplishing by means of pleasure and laughter the catharsis of such emotions”