“His Margites [ancient comedy by Homer] indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies"
Poetics, #Aristotle

Don’t rush out to buy this towering comedic masterpiece which Aristotle puts on a par with the Iliad and the Odyssey; the bookshop won’t have it. It’s almost entirely lost.
#philosophy