Paris once had a Golden Apple...

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THE ILIAD IN LIMERICKS - There once was a Trojan called Paris... (6 posts)

General Thread ₁ Featured August 26 , 2006

The attempts to improve Homer have been many. Timolaus doubled the length by repeating every line in different words. Nestor rewrote the poem without using the letter 'A' in Book 1, the letter 'B' in Book 2, and so on. Tryphiodorus rewrote the Odyssey without using the letter 'S.' Sotades the Obscene rewrote the poem in jocular verse. Yes, the Greek poets were clever, but none of them were as clever as Aulus - who had the brilliant Roman idea to rewrite the Iliad in LIMERICKS! This will be a massive undertaking, but the rewards are great - eternal immortality and poetical fame sung so long as there is air in the lungs of a bard and an unbroken string on their lyre! Let us begin, Erato awaits... ...

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Author: * Strabo Furius - 5 Posts on this thread out of 1,230 Posts sitewide.
Date: Aug 28, 2006 - 01:03

The goddesses did grapple
For Paris' golden apple
But his pick
Was a chick
From a Spartan chapel!

If you can improve on this, be my guest. I had a really good one rhyming with prick instead of pick, but I'm afraid Aulus might up and quit if I post anything too rude.

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