This is now the third time I have read Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ for my degree (though my first time logging and reviewing it because this time I took a physical copy of it out of the library and hence was a book in my hands), and despite having hope for the idea of ‘third times the charm’ my experience was unfortunately no different. In ‘Poetics’ Aristotle compiles the key elements of what he deems makes up a Tragedy, and this has since been seen as a manual on how to write tragedy despite it being written afterward much Greek Tragedy, therefore the early plays were never complying to Aristotle’s ideas. He praises Homer endlessly as almost an infallible poet and other playwrights and poets are relegated to trying to match his work and always failing, and whilst Homer was brilliant this does seem quite harsh. It did however make me a little saddened reading Aristotle’s many examples of plays, plots and characters to back up his points and myself frequently not recognising them, only to quickly google and realise how much has been lost to the sands of time, living only in these references to the works.