Status Updates From Lysistrata and Other Plays

I'm listening to this in audio.

I aspire to be this horny

I have to reread this play for a literature class and yanno what I don’t care, it’s going on my good reads. When I write an essay on this tho I’ll make sure to indent my works cited!
(The last essay I wrote for this professor I made a 75 because the teacher took 25 points for not indenting works cited. I made the highest grade in the class…)

Big shoutout for Myrrhine for the finishing touch of smashing that lamp over his head. ‘Twas the cherry on top of that interaction

I love plays!

Kristen Wilson, my beloved. Thank you for inadvertently calling me a slut xoxo

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The clouds: Old Socrates being messy who would have known.

The Acharnians: Of course, a man is going to talk about peace and do nothing to achieve it 😒

this is me saving lysis’s monologue because I loved it!

This has been hilarious in many places. It’s also interesting to watch the Greeks wrestle with the costs of war.

Also reading this for school!! Thought I was gonna hate it but the reading dynamic inside the classroom made me really excited to read the book.

yk it's good when you make up a symbol to annotate that means a line made you laugh

THE CHARACTERS ARE SO FUNNY

Right off the bat, I find the translation to be very modern. Unlike other renditions, this version doesn’t seem to retain much of the subtle or complex elements common in Greek plays. However, after reading another translated version online, it’s safe to say that I prefer this lol I think I can bear the simplicity of this one

"[he shits himself]" being a real stage direction from this play

This play is crazy wtf

This is so good.

Ha ha, Lysistrata you cunning linguist, quick of wit and hard bargainer.

The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy more than killing each other.
This comedy by Aristophanes was first performed in 411 BC
- from Librivox, read by phil chenevert, baton rouge!

Marrant

"You miserable old farts, you contribute nothing!"

"If this scarf of mine really bothers you, take it and wrap it round your head. Here
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[Lysistrata takes off her scarf and wraps it over the Magistrate’s head.]

Now keep quiet!"

"This business of the war we women will take care of."

"I’m watering you to make you bloom."

i’m always astounded and endeared by how we write abt the same things even in 411 bc, also enjoying the sisterhood here sm

lol

sorry aristophanes i got dsitracted

“If he won’t give his hand, then lead him by the prick.”

I was having serious doubts about the translator's ability to provide objective commentary, and seeing the phrase "[a] fully initiated young African man" in a completely uncritical sense was the last nail in the coffin.

“We’re watering you to make you grow.” 😭😭