And I'm immediately thinking of the plays shown in the TV series, 'Rome.'
Lots of phalli there....
Doug
Quoting "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>:
> from article in The Australian by Luke Slattery
>
> In the old translation of Aristophanes' 'Acharnians' the unlikely hero,
> Dicaeopolis, is first to arrive at the Athenian assembly. "I pass the time
> complaining, yawning, stretching," he says in the old translation.
> And the new:
> "I sigh, I yawn, I stretch, I fart."
>
> A little later in the play we have a phallic hymn and procession
> which seems to
> capture the untamed Dionysiac spirit of archaic comedy: "Yes, it's far more
> pleasant, Phales Phales (the personification of the phallus), to
> catch a budding
> maid with pilfered wood -- Strymodorus Thracian girl from the Rocky Bottom --
> and grab her waist, lift her up, throw her down, and take her cherry."
>
> The old Loeb version was considerably more coy: "Far happier 'tis to me and
> sweeter, O Phales, Phales, some soft glade in, to woo the saucy, arch,
> deceiving, young maiden, as from my woodland fells I meet her
> descending with my
> fagots laden, and catch her up, and ill entreat her, and make her
> pay the fine
> for thieving."
>
> Stevenson offers this example from the Roman poet Martial. "You sang badly,
> Aegle, while your practices were normal. Now you sing well, but you
> aren't to be
> kissed," ran the old version. This has been rendered anew as: "You
> sang badly,
> Aegle, in the days when you were f..ked. Now you sing well, but you
> aren't to be
> kissed."
>
> etc
>
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25948349-25192,00.html
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