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Friends, Athenians, Countrywomen, Lend Me Your Ears

May 22, 2005 14:46

Lysistrate, here. I have had a lot more free time on my hands since the end of the Peloponnesian war, so my typist signed me up for this. You seem like an interesting lot of barbarians people. If anyone ever wants help making a political speech, administering an impromptu oath, or coming up with a creative scheme to facilitate peace between ( Read more... )

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agrotera May 22 2005, 22:01:44 UTC

Excellent.

finweson May 22 2005, 22:04:13 UTC

administering an impromptu oath...

*perks up*

Typist: OMG, we played Lysistrata in drama class when I was in 12th grade. I love you.

pax_hellenica May 23 2005, 01:19:37 UTC

It was the only way to make sure everyone would cooperate. Even then, we had some waverers. (Such as that slender matron who suddenly became pregnant with something that looked *remarkably* like a bronze helmet under her tunic.)

finweson May 23 2005, 15:35:28 UTC

Oh, definitely. Oaths are most useful in that respect. Although mine went rather into the direction of war than into the direction of peace, but let us ignore that. The waverers are always there, and always causing trouble. I would have been most amused had Arafinwë come up with the pregnancy excuse, though. Most amused.

cathydoll May 22 2005, 22:16:34 UTC

Hello, pleased to meet you. Can you come up with plans for revenge?

pax_hellenica May 23 2005, 01:06:43 UTC

Hello, pleased to meet you as well. I don't have any particular experience in coming up with plans of vengeance, but I know of plenty of poems and legends and tragedies about the subject. Most of them end badly, but at least it could provide examples of what *not* to do.

avenginggoddess May 22 2005, 22:47:24 UTC

Hi, welcome and such. And I am not a babarian, take it back or you're dead.
*Wrinkles nose* Peace? Who needs it?

pax_hellenica May 23 2005, 01:02:14 UTC

*err* Of course, I never meant to call you a barbarian, my lady. An illustrious deity such as yourself hardly counts as "you people." My gravest apologies for expressing myself so clumsily. *note to self: find Sophist who accepts women as pupils - or at least a handbook of rhetoric*

Well... I'm not one to debate the Big Questions in the agora, certainly, but I must say that peace presents certain strong subjective attractions to those of us whose husbands and sons are going off and getting killed battling the Spartans. Whatever those comic poets say, some of us women *like* our male family members.

_blueeyedsailor May 23 2005, 00:13:44 UTC

*bows* Welcome, m'lady.

Well, this should be interesting.

[typist] *cackles* Awesome :D. [/typist]