Book Club | May 2025: Aristophanes’s Birds
SCENE: A wild and desolate region; only thickets, rocks, and a single tree are seen. Euelpides and Pisthetaerus enter, each with a bird in his hand. Euelpides To his jay. Do you think I should walk straight for yon tree? Pisthetaerus To his crow. Cursed beast, what are you croaking to me? . . . to retrace my steps? Euelpides Why, you wretch, we are wandering at random, we are… Read more