(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some minor name changes for the sake of clarity.) [A Duel of Economic Ideologies (including personalities): continued from the previous two posts.] SAUSAGE-SELLER. The story is worth hearing. Listen! From here I rushed straight to the Senate, right in the track of this man; […]
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(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some names slightly amended for clarity.) In the last post, Dimisthenes asks, “Who will get us out of this mess?” And who should promptly show up but a sausage-seller! He is swiftly recruited to the cause. What follows is an Aristophian distillation of mankind’s
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(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some names slightly amended for clarity.) [DIMISTHENES:] I will begin then. We have a very brutal master, a perfect glutton for bean[counting], and most bad-tempered; ’tis Demos of [DC], an intolerable old man and half deaf. The beginning of last month he bought a
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