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Aristotle

Aristotle

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 6 Jahren

Natalie Haynes stands up for Aristotle, with Dr Adam Rutherford and Professor Edith Hall.

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Natalie Haynes stands up for Greek philosopher-scientist
Aristotle, with Dr Adam Rutherford and Professor Edith Hall.

This week Natalie explores why it's so easy to fall in love with
Aristotle, have fun with his Nicomachean ethics and how we know
he had 20:20 vision. It seems he hated being tutor to Alexander
the Great, although he did manage to stay alive in the lethal
court of Philip of Macedon, where the usual toll of suspicious
deaths was fourteen a week. But how much did he really know about
elephants' tongues and bivalves on Lesbos? We love a bit of
gossip from a couple of thousand years ago.

Natalie is a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive
about Ancient Greece and Rome. Each week she takes a different
figure from the ancient world and tells their story through a mix
of stand-up comedy, extremely well-informed analysis, and
conversation. The series is – in part – about how the modern
world is more interesting when it's refracted through the prism
of the ancient one. Natalie picks out hilarious details and
universal truths, as well as finding parallels with modern life,
or those parts of life which are still influenced by ancient
thought.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery