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alexjcrowley · 8 months ago

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I have watched several stage renditions of The Frogs by Aristophanes (if you have ever seen the Tumblr post about Heracles declaring to have a lust for soup, that's from there) and long story short, but Aristophanes stages a rap batte between his beloved playwriter Aeschylus and his beloathed playwriter Euripides. One of the reasons why Aeschylus criticises Euripides is because he tells morally reprehensible stories. And when Euripides replies that they are true, Aeschylus says that you shouldn't write about true things if they are bad because what if they influence people to do bad things :(((

So, in conclusion

Rip Aristophanes you would have loved discourse

#aristophanes you should have been on twitter #my man was having discourse in 405 b.C. who was doing it like him #honestly one of the lamest take Aristophanes ever had and that's saying something #one of the most important playwriter of the history of western literature did not display media comprehesion. you heard it here first folks.#Aristophanes I wish you could be alive again just to be killed from the fact that #Euripides has actually became one of the most important sources of artistic inspiration in the world #you roasted him when he was dead well guess what he's more alove than ever and approximately everybody think you're suboar to Menander #I sort of feel for Aristophanes because I get where he is coming from even though it's too long to explain here #still #goofy ass take I fear Aristophanes #I think this horrible hays-code ass take has sadly become mainstream in a lot of leftist spaces #and it makes me laugh so much that Aristophanes may be labelled woke for saying something like this today #can you imagine. He would kill himself #he's a conservative through and through. but do not be mistaken do not imagine an american republican conservative #aristophanes you should have seen trump. You would dragged him into filth in your plays.#Type of guy that makes you look at Cleon and go 'Hold up why is he kinda'#tagamennon

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