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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude.... A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. - Aristotle Attribution: Aristotle (384–323 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Poetics 7; 1450b, trans. by Fyfe (Loeb).

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