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grbs-11611	Golden, Leon	Is Tragedy the “Imitation of a Serious Action”?	1965	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3202	115	50	Distinctions between various kinds of action, such as tragic and comic, are not made by Aristotle on the basis of any essential quality of action itself, but on the basis of the kind of character imitated, which is the aspect of the work of art that is explicitly charged with this responsibility in the Poetics.4 In the Poetics, then, there is only one way in which Aristotle differ­ entiates tragedy from comedy, and that is on the basis of the kinds of character they imitate: tragedy imitates the actions of the G7Tov8aLoL, comedy the actions of the cpavAoL.5 It is also on the basis of their imitat­ ing the same kind of character that Aristotle holds that tragedy and epic are similar, although they differ in the manner of their presentation.6 Thus, regularly in the Poetics, Aristotle uses the term 3 See 1450bZl-1451bll. See 1461a4-9 for an indication of how Aristotle conceives of noble action as conditioned by and dependent on nobility of character.	cache/grbs-11611.pdf	txt/grbs-11611.txt