Catoptrica
The geometry of mirrors — angles of incidence, reflection, and the burning glass.
Nicomachean Ethics
Ten books on virtue, the mean between extremes, and the question of the good life.
The Republic
A dialogue on justice that becomes a city, a soul, and an allegory of a cave.
Pneumatica
Devices powered by air, water, and fire — automata for temples and parlour tricks for kings.
Mechanica
Levers, pulleys, screws — and a steam engine eighteen centuries early.
On Floating Bodies
The principle that bears his name — and a king’s crown weighed in water.
Phaenomena
A poem of the night sky — constellations, weather signs, and the order of the heavens.
Lysistrata
The women of Greece end a war by means the men had not anticipated.
The Bacchae
The arrival of Dionysus in Thebes, and what is owed to a god who is refused.
Oedipus Rex
A king who solves every riddle but the one of his own birth.