Status Updates From Lysistrata and Other Plays

Is this a sketch of Cualca?

i love the women’s threats to the “chorus of old men” bc same

Getting better in last quarter of book

Mulheres e velhos voltam a brigar:

1o. VELHO:
Não há fera majs indomável que a mulher, nem fogo mais destruidor. Nem a pantera é mais traiçoeira.

1a. MULHER:
Você sabe de tudo isso e no entanto quer brigar conosco, quando o dia ter em nós as aliadas mais seguras, velho injusto.

A cena entre Cinésias e sua mulher Mirrina é hilariante.

COMISSÁRIO
(dirigindo-se a LISÍSTRATA, CLEONICE e MIRRINA).
Muito bem. Antes de mais nada quero saber porque voces ocuparam a cidadela

LISÍSTRATA
Para guardar o dinheiro do povo que esta Iá no Tesouro e impedir vocês de fazerem guerras por causa dele […] É para poderem roubar nos cargos públicos que vocês vivem armando encrencas…

Idk much about Greek comedies and stuff like this but it’s genuinely funny

"MAGISTRATE

Women there! Tell what I ask you, directly....
Come, without rambling, I wish you to state
What's your rebellious intention in barring up thus on our noses
our own temple-gate."

Took them long enough to ask this simple question. Smh.

Almost done! Reading the appendixes right now...

I feel like this play is slowly dying on me...

She’s literate still

I have to say that the second act is nowhere near as good as the first act (so far, in my humble opinion...). The translation I'm reading is really full of... choices 😂 Some of them are pretty interesting, but some of them are just... ugh and make me wonder what type of word was used in the original and if the translation is just reflecting that or what... I'm very ready for the story to move!

aristophanes my guy…

I LOVED THE CLOUDS. BEST ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY. SO RICH.

Hot da grécia

aristophanes was so punny

The scene where all of the women start to feel up Lampitó is gay as fuck, even if they later can't seem to part away from their husbands' dicks.
Otherwise, the mix of misogyny and hilariousness is a little bit confusing to my sense of enjoyment, but we'll see... I'm definitely having fun imagining Aristophanes trying to chanel his inner woman and coming up with fit of hysterics over getting to give up dicks... XD

genuinely one of the funniest books i’ve ever read

Hehehe, die Spartanerin spricht irgendwas Allemännisches! Gar Schweizerdeutsch? Sag, Lampito.

Ich kann nicht schlafen, weil ich wegen einer Erkältung nicht atmen kann. Ich hoffe, ich werde das Buch nicht beenden, jedenfalls nicht heute, weil das bedeutete, dass ich eingeschlafen bin. Drama über "starke Frauen"....

baby listed as a speaking character in this play???

Los comentarios del Lucas y las del humanístico 👌👌

slayy

what in the actual fuck

one of the girls who had this out before me literally called that girl whose name starts with c...ill call her cleor anyway she called cleor a whore (she wrote in here) for wanting to dye her dress yellow

Que fantasia
Me encanta imaginarme a una como una roneanta

No estoy leyendo nada pero es que la universidad me come el tiempo, so sad

adding this for fun

Me voy a llevar este libro a partir de mañana al tren para los viajes a la uni

CHŒUR DE VIEILLARDS. - Qu'es-tu venue faire ici avec cette eau, femme haïe des dieux ?

STRATYLLIS. - Et toi, avec ce feu, vieux cadavre ? Est-ce pour te brûler toi-même ?

CHŒUR DES VIEILLARDS. - Moi, c'est pour allumer ce bûcher, et faire griller tes compagnes.

CHŒUR DE FEMMES. - Et moi, c'est pour éteindre ton bûcher.

girlboss moment