Greek comedy is full of references to politicians and innuendo. Also: lolz.
I am packed. Pretty much, anyway.
My Birds (Aristophanes) seminar was rather strange, though amusing. We were rather serious (with occasional outbreaks of laughter) for the first hour and a half, but after that everyone was ready to leave and start spring break. This manifested in 10-second silences and people saying the equivalent of "So what did you all think of this weird bit?" and "That bit was hilarious!" for half an hour. At one point Mr. Lacey referenced Derek and his wind-egg comment from math class- everyone got the joke,* but only my core group had been there for the actual event.
Ethelflaed's friend is sort-of-prospie-ing again, and so my seminar actually had a student prospie instead of prospective tutors sit in on it. :D Apparently it was an enjoyable experience.
Quotes:
(after trying to explicate an idea) "I'm not sure- I guess that [explanation]'s kind of groping." -Andrew P.
"I'm going to become Brendan theDuck because I love ducks so much. I respect their power..." -Brendan M.
"They want to go to a city where they can go to a wedding-feast every day and have strange sexual encounters..." -Brendan M. (The 'strange sexual encounters' refers to this exchange:
Tereus: My word, it's miserable troubles that you long for! And you?
Euelpides: I long for much the same.
Tereus: Such as?
Euelpides: A city where the father of a blooming boy would meet me and complain like this, aas if wronged: "It's a dandy way you treat my son, Mr. Smoothy! You met him leaving the gymnasium after his bath, and you didn't kiss him, chat him up, or hug him, or fondle his balls--and you my old family friend!")
"It's clear from the number of people flocking to the city-" -Colin F.
*Jacob, a guy in all of my classes, kept starting to say something in math one day but always stopped himself, saying "No, no, it's stupid, I don't want to say it." We kept pestering him to just say it and be done, until finally Derek said, "Jacob, just say it and I'll help you birth your wind-egg." We learned about wind-eggs (unfertilized eggs) from Plato's Theaetetus, where Socrates is trying to make a young potential philosopher "give birth to" an idea. If it's actually Theaetetus's idea and it's viable, Socrates promises to let him keep it, but if it's the product of some other philosopher or it's a dumb idea, Socrates is going to kill it, because apparently that's what midwives in Athens do with bastard and/or unfit children.
My Birds (Aristophanes) seminar was rather strange, though amusing. We were rather serious (with occasional outbreaks of laughter) for the first hour and a half, but after that everyone was ready to leave and start spring break. This manifested in 10-second silences and people saying the equivalent of "So what did you all think of this weird bit?" and "That bit was hilarious!" for half an hour. At one point Mr. Lacey referenced Derek and his wind-egg comment from math class- everyone got the joke,* but only my core group had been there for the actual event.
Ethelflaed's friend is sort-of-prospie-ing again, and so my seminar actually had a student prospie instead of prospective tutors sit in on it. :D Apparently it was an enjoyable experience.
Quotes:
(after trying to explicate an idea) "I'm not sure- I guess that [explanation]'s kind of groping." -Andrew P.
"I'm going to become Brendan theDuck because I love ducks so much. I respect their power..." -Brendan M.
"They want to go to a city where they can go to a wedding-feast every day and have strange sexual encounters..." -Brendan M. (The 'strange sexual encounters' refers to this exchange:
Tereus: My word, it's miserable troubles that you long for! And you?
Euelpides: I long for much the same.
Tereus: Such as?
Euelpides: A city where the father of a blooming boy would meet me and complain like this, aas if wronged: "It's a dandy way you treat my son, Mr. Smoothy! You met him leaving the gymnasium after his bath, and you didn't kiss him, chat him up, or hug him, or fondle his balls--and you my old family friend!")
"It's clear from the number of people flocking to the city-" -Colin F.
*Jacob, a guy in all of my classes, kept starting to say something in math one day but always stopped himself, saying "No, no, it's stupid, I don't want to say it." We kept pestering him to just say it and be done, until finally Derek said, "Jacob, just say it and I'll help you birth your wind-egg." We learned about wind-eggs (unfertilized eggs) from Plato's Theaetetus, where Socrates is trying to make a young potential philosopher "give birth to" an idea. If it's actually Theaetetus's idea and it's viable, Socrates promises to let him keep it, but if it's the product of some other philosopher or it's a dumb idea, Socrates is going to kill it, because apparently that's what midwives in Athens do with bastard and/or unfit children.