Opening The Birds — Aristophanes in Plato Scroll…
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Aristophanes · Anonymous (Athenian Society, 1912)
An Attic vase depicting a scene from this famous play A Willamette University Theatre production of The Birds in 1986 Do you think I should walk straight for yon tree? Cursed beast, what are you croaking to me?… to retrace my steps? Why, you wretch, we are wandering at random, we are exerting ourselves only to return to the same spot; ’tis labour lost. To think that I should trust to this crow, which has made me cover more than a thousand furlongs! And I to this jay, who has torn every nail from my fingers! If only I knew where we were. . . . Could you find your country again from here? No, I feel quite sure I could not, any more than could Execestides find his. Oh dear! oh dear! Aye, aye, my friend, ’tis indeed the road of “oh dears” we are following. That Philocrates, the bird-seller, played us a scurvy trick, when he pretended these two guides could help us to find Tereus, the Epops, …
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