If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the... shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But mortals suppose that the gods are born (as they themselves are), and that they wear men's clothing and have human voice and bo...dy. But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give them bodies in form like their own--horses like horses, cattle like cattle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with... pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »