"...when, in the Trojan debate, Hector cites Aristotle's Ethics, we receive a shock of anachronism which is surely deliberate. It is inconceivable that Shakespeare thought that Aristotle lived before the Trojan War (even if unlearned he was no Trimalchio or Bottom) and the effect of violent disjunction is quite different from that of trivial anachronism, like the reference to Milo, a famous Greek athlete of the sixth century BC"
Anachronism

January 1, 1970

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