worth laughing at

Burning down Rome / heracy.

Cataline was accused of not leading the consul in the right way.  He was trying to take over the consul.

Being a terrible ruler.

Eating his children, or ruining the state of Rome.

Adultry.

Loving another man.

Hi A——-,

I had to go home because tonight is my sisters 21st birthday, and I couldn’t miss
that.  I got my homework due for tommorow done, so if you want me to send you
that I can.  I was also wondering if you had gotten the time to translate that quote I
gave you at the drill session.  It’s part of a tattoo I am going to get and I might be
getting it this weekend, so if you are done then could you e-mail it to me.  If you
aren’t though don’t worry about it, I can just add it later.

Thanks,

Student

(The sentence is: “It doesn’t matter how hard you can hit, it matters how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”)

It’s time for my first Latin class to take their final, which is why it was a little disheartening to receive this original composition today:

sum ____ et sum discipulus et sum senior. sum laudo et amici. sum laudo football et basketball. sum non mal sedes bonus. sum doctus et bellus.

(I am ______ and I am a student and I am a senior.  I am I praise and friends.  I am I praise football and basketball.  I am not bad you sit good man.  I am smart and hot.)

There are many differences, and yet many similarities between the television show and the original myth.

I appreciated the Greek Hercules for its story and the Sorbo-cles for its fable elements.

NASA has always wanted to portray astronauts as heroes who are flawless diamonds, but an inspection of their lives, wisdom, and news reports of murderous space women, show that they are just achievers with the right skill sets. 

Hades has to fight for every inch of his hanky panky. 

Persephone, the focal point of the story, has obvious visual objectives.  First of all, she wears an article of clothing that makes her cleavage more pronounced. 

Appearance wise, Hercules is what would be expected of an ancient hero: big muscles with clothes that can barely contain his brawny manliness.

 No one would want to watch a show where after an hour, the sloppy, fat Hercules is still complaining about the winter and Persephone is saved in the end by the gods instead.

On focusing on Kevin Sorbo as Hercules, it is evident that he is the protagonist of the whole television series.  To show this, the producers and directors used the series title, Hercules, and gave each episode a minute long introduction clip giving the broad picture of the whole television series, using lines such as, “the only thing stronger than him was his heart.”

 In her case the adaptation was less, but still helped her to be pictured as a not-so-bad-but-not-so-good guy.

So the combination of old and new made the perfect show.  Otherwise we’d still all be watching Baywatch.

Without anger, the Iliad would be reduced to a less than thrilling 400+ page story about war.

[Aeneas and Achilles] do not think for a moment (as Homer writes) about their opponent’s reputation, whether their homies are backing them up, or if they had their wheaties for breakfast…these bad boys are at the top of the food chain.

According to Disney’s Hercules, “A hero is not measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart.” Archilleus clearly missed that point, for he was willing to sacrifice all those around him so he could be remembered.

How interesting can it be to be an ancient Greek god who is immortal? There’s nothing a god can do to make him/herself parish.

When one Greek goddess and gods favor mortal beings, others are at risk and even the ones in favor are at risk of being killed.

Neglecting the fertility goddess might give one no children and as a result every aspect is important.

If Achilles were as passive as he was aggressive, he would have died early on and would not be such a prominent figure in Greek mythology.

The anger demonstrated throughout the poem was Achilleus’ best friend.

When given the choice between a long and comfortable life or a short, but glorious life on the battlefield, he chose the ladder.

Inter multa ac varia incommoda vitae nihil propemodum molestius, amici cari, passa sum, quam quod cum hominibus inhumanis consuesco: in ipsum Harpyarum nidum habito. Haec me inhospiter, ista hostiliter habet; haec sensus communis, ista sanae mentis omnino vacua est. Itaque cum nocte coquunt, primum opercularum et aularum strepitus audio, deinde cibis tostis nidor crescit, deinde sonus qui de igne monet acutus circumsonat. Ecce lucet, alia dormit; garrula cum amicis absentibus ad mane loquitur et amnis verborum adsidue ab ore perfluit. Alii solitudo turbida est, quae secum conloquitur, sed irascitur si aliquis eam adloquitur. Quid undique semper cantat? Quid in compluvio se movet, ut propinqui de percussu querantur? Quid mehercules vestes meas in furnacem posuit? Utra silentium imperat, sed ea silentium amat quae tacita est.