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Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 8, section 1340a
mere indications of character, and these indications are only bodily sensations during the emotions; not but what in so far as there is a difference even in regard to the observation of these indications,i.e. these visual impressions do vary to some extent in moral effect. the young must not look at the works of Pauson but those of Polygnotus,Pauson is a painter otherwise little known. Polygnotus decorated the Stoa Poikile and other famous public buildings at Athens, in the middle of the 5th century B.C. ‘Polygnotus represented men as better than they really were, Pauson as worse’ （Aristot. Poet. 1448a 5）. and of any other moral painter or sculptor）, pieces of music on the contrary do actually contain in them selves imitations of character; and this is manifest, for even in the nature of the mere melodies there are differences, so that people when hearing them are affected differently and have not the same f
Olympus (Greece) (search for this): book 8, section 1340a
le to everybody （for the pleasure contained in music is of a natural kind, owing to which the use of it is dear to those of all ages and characters）, but to see if its influence reaches also in a manner to the character and to the soul. And this would clearly be the case if we are affected in our characters in a certain manner by it. But it is clear that we are affected in a certain manner, both by many other kinds of music and not least by the melodies of OlympusA Phrygian composer of the seventh century B.C.; for these admittedly make our souls enthusiastic, and enthusiasm is an affection of the character of the soul. And moreover everybody when listening to imitationsMusic dramatically expressing various states of emotion. is thrown into a corresponding state of feeling, even apart from the rhythms and tunes themselves.A probable correction of the Greek gives ‘by the rhythms and tunes themselves, even apart f<