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ironic! i made my first blog about aristophanes musicals classicsandlaughs.blogspot.com -- but i'd rather see athenaze as a full fledged comic strip.
CAVE IDVS MARTIAS 2007
oroboros commented on the word aristophanes
NOT aristo-fanes, as my cousin pronounced it aloud in a reading-to-class once...to her vast and enduring chagrin.
August 5, 2008
whichbe commented on the word aristophanes
"Primeval man could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast…Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods... Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained. At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way. He said: 'Methinks I have a plan which will humble their pride and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a single leg.'"
— Aristophanes, Plato’s Symposium
January 10, 2009