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2006-08-04 22:35:01 · 4 answers · asked by infoboite 1 in Arts & Humanities History

It is not Aristotile orBig baloon.

2006-08-04 23:21:30 · update #1

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Perhaps you are looking for Herostratus (Erostrato in Spanish; Herostrat in German.) He was a young man in the ancient city of Ephesus who conceived of the idea of destroying the most beautiful thing in the world in order to achieve lasting fame. Accordingly, he set fire to the Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and then proudly confessing his crime. (Coincidentally, 21st July 356 BC, the date of the crime was also the birthday of Alexander the Great!)
His name has shown up in a number of ways:
1) The Herostrato Syndrome is the title of a book studying modern (9/11) terrorism for self-glorification
2) Erostrato is the name of an essay by Sartre and a film based on the essay. There is currently a Broadway play based on the Sartre writings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus

2006-08-05 00:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Knowitall 4 · 3 1

Do you mean Aristotle? As far as I know aerostrato means hot air balloons in Spanish.
Aristotle was a student of Plato. They were both philosophers that lived in ancient time. They were to philosophy what Euclid was to math.

2006-08-04 22:46:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it is not "who", it is "what".
aerostato is called the "hot air balloon."
put it in your search engine and get whatever you need.

Montgolfieri brothers were, who used it and demonstrated in Avignon on1782 first time.

http://www.montgolfier.it/la-storia.html
it may be in italian but u can use babelfish to translate it to english,
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

2006-08-04 22:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by UncleGeorge 4 · 0 0

See the answer at http://aerostrato.buzznet.com/user/photos/?id=3079786

2006-08-04 23:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by Ashish B 4 · 0 0

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