Pleasure is at the core of aesthetic experience in antiquity, but what sort of pleasure are we dealing with? I consider the responses offered by Gorgias, Plato, and Aristotle: if Plato condemns the strong emotional pleasures we get from tragedy, his own myths are meant to provide his readers with an emotional, and a cognitive, pleasure; according to Aristotle, tragedy as well as music are to provide spectators with the pleasure of the “activity” of the emotions involved, as well as some cognitive pleasures linked to our proper appreciation of the arts in question, while Gorgias, in his Helen, suggests that aesthetic pleasure should be linked to an imaginative journey in possible worlds.