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The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain When one hears about “the longest …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
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The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain When one hears about “the longest …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ -
The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain When one hears about “the longest …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ -
The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain When one hears about “the longest …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ -
The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ -
The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe
The longest greek word is made by 172 letters, and was featured in “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1990. Credit: Public Domain …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #ancientgreekfood #AncientGreeklanguage #ancientGreektheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #greekfood #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ -
The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ #AncientGreekFood #AncientGreekLanguage #AncientGreekTheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #GreekFood #Mediterranean #MediterraneanFood
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The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ #AncientGreekFood #AncientGreekLanguage #AncientGreekTheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #GreekFood #Mediterranean #MediterraneanFood
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The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe https://www.diningandcooking.com/2605507/the-longest-greek-word-is-actually-an-ancient-recipe-2/ #AncientGreekFood #AncientGreekLanguage #AncientGreekTheater #Aristophanes #evergreen #GreekFood #Mediterranean #MediterraneanFood
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Mocking the powerful is an ancient democratic custom; the #Athenians took it to extremes, judging by the way #Aristophanes mocked all known #political and cultural figures of his time.
The ancients weren't content with that though; there was #ostracism, the expelling of those thought to be influential enough to be considered a threat to democracy. No justification was required, just a set number of votes.
#NoDecorumForFascists is one of those "use it or lose it" things, like #democracy itself.
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M blocks readings on #gender ideology in #philosophy class: ‘#Plato has been #censored’
Martin Peterson was told to remove race and gender ideology modules and affiliated readings from the celebrated classical Greek philosopher from his “Contemporary Moral Issues” class
By Samantha Ketterer, Staff WriterJan 7, 2026
"[Peterson] said he also assigns a few passages from Plato, including #Aristophanes’ myth of the split humans and #Diotima’s #LadderOfLove. In those, Plato says there are more than two biological sexes and displays a positive view of #homosexuality."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LiA44#Censorship #Texas #Fascism #AncientPhilsophers #History #GBLTQRights #WeExist!
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#Premiere für #Aristophanes am 31. Oktober: „Compania Sincara bringt: #Frieden“
https://www.l-iz.de/kultur/theater/2025/10/premiere-fuer-aristophanes-am-31-oktober-compania-sincara-bringt-frieden-635700
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#BostonWeekend 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic #Greek comedy with “The #Birds” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the #Byrds. In rhymed #tetrameter couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/ #Aristophanes #AncientGreek #ClassicalStudies #Comedy #BostonTheatre #TheBirds #TheByrds
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#BostonWeekend 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic #Greek comedy with “The #Birds” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the #Byrds. In rhymed #tetrameter couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/ #Aristophanes #AncientGreek #ClassicalStudies #Comedy #BostonTheatre #TheBirds #TheByrds
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#BostonWeekend 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic #Greek comedy with “The #Birds” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the #Byrds. In rhymed #tetrameter couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/ #Aristophanes #AncientGreek #ClassicalStudies #Comedy #BostonTheatre #TheBirds #TheByrds
#Boston #History #fringe #Weird #Puppets -
#BostonWeekend 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic #Greek comedy with “The #Birds” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the #Byrds. In rhymed #tetrameter couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/ #Aristophanes #AncientGreek #ClassicalStudies #Comedy #BostonTheatre #TheBirds #TheByrds
#Boston #History #fringe #Weird #Puppets -
#BostonWeekend 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic #Greek comedy with “The #Birds” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the #Byrds. In rhymed #tetrameter couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/ #Aristophanes #AncientGreek #ClassicalStudies #Comedy #BostonTheatre #TheBirds #TheByrds
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‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/29/the-frogs-review-stephen-sondheim-musical-aristophanes-southwark-playhouse #SouthwarkPlayhouse #StephenSondheim #Aristophanes #Musicals #Theatre #Culture #Stage
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals."
#Aristophanes, Birds 563🏛️ #Helios-Sol as Sunday with aureola, mosaic, 3rd century CE, Villa Orbe-Boscéaz, Suisse
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals."
#Aristophanes, Birds 563🏛️ #Helios driving his quadriga chariot, #Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
@antiquidons
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #VasePainting -
The Students of Trinity college at the University of Toronto put on the play the Frogs of Aristophanes 122 years ago today, on June 23rd, 1902. I assume this photo is from Philosopher's Walk. The link takes you to the collection of photos from the book The University of Toronto and its colleges – 1827-1906. https://wholemap.com/June23 #OTD #Toronto #UofT #LiveTheatre #Aristophanes #TorontoPhoto #OnThisDay #BWPhotography #HistoricPhoto
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@elysegrasso Let me give you a simile from ancient Greek literature 😉
Dionysos: Such fierce desire consumes me. I can't describe it but I'll tell you in a riddling way. Have you ever felt a sudden lust for soup?
Herakles: Soup? By Zeus, ten thousand times!
Dionysos: Is the thing clear or must I elaborate further?
Herakles: Not about the soup. I'm clear about the soup.#Aristophanes, The Frogs
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When women are without men they must "skin the skinned dog*" 🐶
#Aristophanes, #Lysistrata 158
*masturbate
#FannyFriday #ancientGreek #ancientGreekLanguage #ancientGreekTheatre @AncientPLay @antiquidons @histodons
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For the first time today I taught a Greek class using a refreshable braille display for the text. Lots of trepidation, but it went reaĺly well and I'm buzzing. Was really struggling to hold it together earlier in the week, so this cheered me up no end.
#greek #braille #Aristophanes #comedy #accessibility #classics
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What is it that lovers most deeply desire? Aristophanes gives us one answer in Plato's Symposium. Here's a short taken from one of my classes discussing that bit of the text!
https://youtube.com/shorts/C59qQI0a1mQ
#Short #Video #Symposium #Aristophanes #Love #Desire #Unity #Fusion #Philosophy -
Here's a new short taken from one of my Intro to Philosophy class sessions,. This one is about the Old Comedy that Aristophanes was a master of in ancient Athens.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YaVyAhP9Jgg
#Short #Philosophy #Symposium #Comedy #Aristophanes #Literature #Drama #Poetry -
If only Lysistrata tactics could be collectively used to end #GunViolence in the U.S.. We would likely see quick progress. You may think I'm joking or making light of a serious situation, but I am 100% serious.
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#Chi-Raq
"A #modern day #adaptation of the ancient #Greek play Lysistrata by #Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of #gang #violence in #Chicago, Illinois[…]"
