Similarmente, no toda accion sin valor, aun cuando nos lleva a la risa, es comica, sino solamente la que ademas causa una
catastasis o relajacion, por ejemplo: proporcionando el perfecto objeto para esta emocion.
During the Renaissance, the theorist Scaliger added another moment,
catastasis, following the epitasis, which is a new and further moment of complication (Neale and Krutnik 27).
At several junctures, she explores "comparative texts": Ambrose's De Tobia, the Chronicle of Ps.-Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's
Catastasis. While not without interest, these tend to be more diverting than illuminating, obscuring the clarity of argument.