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Old 07-07-2014, 04:38 PM   #20140
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Just finished Lysistrata by Aristophanes. This play was first performed in Athens in 411 BCE, and if it taught me anything, it's that there's nothing new under the sun. Take this contemporary-sounding bit of dialogue for example:

MEN:
I won’t be kissed.

WOMEN:
O yes, you will. Your wishes do not matter.

MEN:
O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell:
How truly was that said.


I had no idea the cliché, "Women: Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" was so ancient.

SPECIAL NOTE to the wonderful women of MobileRead: Aristophanes said it; I didn't. Send your cards and letters to Aristophanes C/O Ancient Writers, Athens, Greece.
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