THE BOOK OF
GREEKS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF GREEKS
The Greeks get brilliant at scienceGreek joke starts Trojan War
Chapter 14
For example, there was the Greek scientist named kAristotle,
2Who was the student of a Greek named lPlato,
3Who heard about a place called Atlantis,
4mWhere there was a tribe almost as Chosen as the Greeks,
5Who lived on an island in the Atlantic Ocean,
6nWhich they named after themselves,
7oThen disappeared when their island was scattered to the four corners of the earth by a volcano.
8Plato got to be this brilliant by being the student of a Greek named pSocrates,
9Who was such a good teacher that he never explained anything,
10qBut made the students explain it to themselves,
11Which is called the Socratic method,
12rAnd explains why civilization has gotten so advanced over the years,
13sExcept that some of the other Greeks didn’t like Socrates’ method and made him drink themlock,
14uWhich cut his thread in no time flat.
15Anyway,
16Aristotle was part of this brilliant tradition,
17And invented science,
18Causing Hypocrites, who invented medicine and doctors, not to mention vswearing,
19And Galen, who invented wmathematics,
20Unless it was really Thales who invented mathematics,
21But he was a Greek too, so it doesn’t really matter which it was,
22And xPythagoras, who invented the Pythagorean theorem,
23And Euclid, who invented Euclidean geometry,
24And Zeno, who invented yZeno’s arrow,
25And Archimedes, who invented physics in a bathtub,
26And rushed out naked to atell everybody about it,
27And was so embarrassed afterwards that he forgot to name physics after himself,
28bWhich caused lots of confusion later on.
29Nor was science the only thing Aristotle invented.
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