Thoughts about two of Aristophanes plays.
First in the clouds I really enjoy the sounds they use to describe their bowels... sounds like "pappapappax" and "papapappappapappax." I'm not really sure how to vocalize these, but I'm sure that it would be wonderful.
On a more serious note. Strepsiades and and his son Pheidippides are two of the main parts. Dad is displeased with how Son has spent much of his wealth. Dad isn't pleased with his son at all until Son is taught "wrong logic" by Socrates. I felt a connection with our day where Fathers are more concerned with their sons abilities and accomplishments that they ar with their sons as people.
The second Play is Lysistrata. This is an amusing work about Women abstaining from Sex so their husbands will stop going to war.
I found a connection with "Glory Road" by Heinlien. In Glory Road, throughout all of the universes, Earth was the only place where Sex was thought of a commotity. Here once again it is used as means of leverage: a tool or resource.
Around lines 358-390 the Men are going to burn the Acroplis (or women there in), and the women are going to save them by dousing the flame. I feel that this is an interesting element of symbolism. Think Men->Fire->Passion; Think Women->Water (cold)-> quenching the mens' passion. Don't take it that I'm generalizing this, but only within this story where the women are abstaining to drive their husbands nuts.
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