Status Updates From Lysistrata and Other Plays

The Acharnians: this is basically a meta social commentary self-insert play. Interesting how Aristophanes straight-up name drops irl individuals like Euripides. Also like... I haven't read Telemachus so I missed the point of the whole call-out section. Pity.

Peace wins essentially. Pretty cool, also the whole porker daughters scene is so wild. Ancient Greece never stops opening my eyes to new... imagery.

Lysistrata's short review: this is SO funny and SO raunchy, and I think we as a modern society sometimes tend to forget that olden people were just as funny as we are today. This is pure comedy, some of the imagery in the book just killed me. Also so full of bitchqueen pussybosses, love it.

Note on the translation: very modern and slangy, easy to read. For some reason, Spartans speak in the Scottish dialect. Silly.

Basically I just had a dream where someone called me Lysistrata and so now I'm reading this I guess

I'm going to finish this soon.

LYSISTRATA. There isn’t any need for war. COMMISSIONER. How else could we survive?

LYSISTRATA. We aimed to seize the treasury, and block your funds for warfare.
COMMISSIONER. You think it’s money that makes us fight?

Long life brings many surprises, shiver me timbers!
Who would have thought, my friends, we’d ever hear!
That women, whom we reared
As blatant mischiefs in our homes,
Should seize Athena’s statue,
And occupy our sacred hill,
And fasten up these massive gates With bolts and bars?

this book is the definition of #girlboss #gaslight #gatekeep

the little foot notes r so helpful

i feel like I shouldnt be reading this in class

THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN 411 BC AND THEYRE TALKING ABOUT 8 INCH DILDOS BAHAHHAHAHAH

dawg....

"its huge" is literally the last line of the page LMAO

dawg....

"its huge" is literally the last line of the page LMAO

as much as im lovin this book, taking a break to read six of crows finally!!

Just finished The Acharnians after the intro. This is absolutely hilarious, there's so many good pun scenes: different ages of wine as metaphors for different durations of a possible peace treaty, an uncomfortable but language-wise genius scene about "porkers", and it all feels very on the nose of Aristie just trying to say "War is bad". Intro is incredibly useful for historical context and a summary of Aristophanes.

istg this is the funniest thing ive ever read

"[The fourth officer sh*ts himself and runs off in terror]"

"LEADER OF MEN’S CHORUS Listen to her! She’s a nervy bitch!
LEADER OF WOMEN’S CHORUS I’m a free woman."

SLAAYYYY

THIS IS SO MUCH FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HJADS

"CALONICE [fondling Lampito’s bosom] What an amazing pair of breasts you’ve got!"

the version im reading only has 81 pages?

why did she thought it was a good idea

¡Dale con la silla!
¡Avienta el jarrón!
¡báñalo, báñalo!

Reading for Lit class

New translation - with the naughty bits updated and the translation brilliantly enjoyable.

So far eh? Had a couple laughs

Man why’d I rate this so low the first time out? It’s hilarious!

the amount of plays / poems im in the middle rn because of school omg

SEX STRIKE OMGGGGGGGG
imagine abstaining... xD

Lol I am officially going to stop having crushes on people. Well , I say that but I still will, won't I?

Too plain, not interesting, not much literary value (in my opinion, though there is a bit of that too)