Types of comic characters, cont.
Other “types” are mentioned by Aristotle in his Rhetoric and the treatise on comedy, the Tractatus Coislinianus
The eiron, the one who deprecates himself: one who pretends to know nothing
The alazon, the self-important character; the ridiculous imposter
The pharmakos, or scapegoat; may be a scoundrel.
The bomolochoi, or buffoon
The agroikos, or churlish rustic, country cousin