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A moment in ancient Greece (media.piefed.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/historymemes@lemmy.world

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[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 80 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

For people like me, who didn't get it: Euripides: a greek philosopher who'se name sounds like the phrase " Did you rip these?" Eumenides: a tragedy by Aeschylus that sounds like the phrase " Will you mend these"

I love it.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It helps if you give them a really cartoonish Italian accent. 🤌

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, i just read them as "eury-pi-des" and "eury-many-dees" which really didn't work at all

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, would've taken me a long time to figure it out without this.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, didn't work for me.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Did you try paying it better?