"Advanced imaging technology has revealed a third text - a commentary on the philosopher Aristotle.More specifically, it's a review of Aristotle's weekly stand-up act at the Agora Phobia Comedy Club. This find enables us to determine Aristotle's theory of comedy, which was previously thought to be lost forever with the missing book of the Poetics. Most surprisingly, that theory involved stepping on a rake and having the handle pop up in one's face - what Aristotle called "the ultimate comedy of error" or "hamartemna hamina hamina"
Friday, April 27, 2007
BBC NEWS | Technology | Text reveals more ancient secrets
More ancient works discovered in the Archimedes Palimsest
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