This week in one of my English classes, we're reading Lysistrata* by Aristophanes. Part of me can't wait to see the squirming, to feel the embarrassment in the room. Remember the culture in which I reside...
*The women of Greece (both of Athens and Sparta), tired of the Peloponnesian War, decide to hold out on giving up the goods to force an end to the fighting.
Posted by Rae at October 11, 2005 06:23 AMCan you imagine what they will do when vows come up. This should be fun. I went to a Song of Solomon class with a bunch of septuagenarians. The more explicit passages became quite entertaining. Some of them got real quiet. Some of them were pretty lusty. I never could have predicted who they would be.
Have fun.
Remind me not to take that class!
Posted by: Ith at October 12, 2005 12:12 PMWell, they discuss them in measures that would be understood by the Greeks at the time. Translation to modern vernacular does make it obscene; but maybe primal is a better word.
You would have been fine, Ith :D I would've been there with you :D
Posted by: Rae at October 13, 2005 06:49 AM
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