Creator
HOMER
Title
Margites
Coverage
London
Publisher
Heinemann
Date
1920
Subject
Lost in antiquity.
Description
Homer wrote three epic poems: a tragedy in the Iliad, an adventure in the Odyssey, and a comedy, the Margites, the story of the eponymous bonehead of whom Plato said that he knew many things, but all badly. Aristotle said “...the Margites is to comedy what the Iliad and Odyssey are to tragedy.” The humor in the book comes from the ridiculous situations into which Margites bumbles through his foolishness. Lucille Ball waits in the wings.
Source
Μαργίτης
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