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To: mware

Only the Clouds? One MUST read Lysistrata. One should read the Frogs. One must read Aristophanes with Euripides or else you miss why he picked on him so often.

But I have a sneaking, slightly wicked fondness for the Thesmophoriazusae (In the Penguin editions called the Poet and the Women.) I have a certain fondness for the Wasps as well.


60 posted on 02/17/2006 10:07:40 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
My favorite is Antigone by SOPHOCLES.

I recall my ancient history professor at university was having difficulty getting the students to read,The Satyricon until he told them it was the first pornographic novel in western civilization.

73 posted on 02/17/2006 11:29:01 AM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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