The Greek Tragedy and the Place of the Gods with Aristotle

Subject Areas : Philosophy

Eisa Nouri vayghan ¹ , Shamsolmolok Mostafavi ² , Esmaeel Shafiee ³

1 - Faculty of Law,theology and political science.silence and research branch. Azad Islamic university. Tehran.Iran
2 - دانشیار گروه فلسفه، واحد تهران شمال، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Faculty of Cinema and Theatre, Art University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-03-07 Accepted : 2022-03-07 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: Aristotle, Poetics, Gods, Greek Tragedy,

Abstract :

Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher, discussed tragedy in poetics but he did not care the “Gods”. While historical studies show that the “Gods” play an important role in tragedy. In this study we try to determine the causes of ignoring the “Gods” in tragedy with Aristotle. The method is descriptive-analytical and library resources have been used. In this study we first examine some of the Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides’s tragedies and examine Aristotle’s vision in this regard. The main question of this study is: what are the causes of ignoring the role of “Gods” in tragedy with Aristotle? The result of this study that can be used by researchers of philosophy and theatre show that the causes of ignoring the role of the gods in the event of tragedy by Aristotle are: realistic, logical and rational view of world phenomena, maintaining religious and moral principles and as well as belief in man as a creature of intellection and choice