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orichalcum) wrote2007-10-24 02:28 pm
orichalcum) wrote2007-10-24 02:28 pm
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Your Classical Myth of the Day: Venus Got Back!
Bet they didn't teach you this one in 4th grade:
"The people of those days were so attached to their sensual pleasures that they even went so far as to dedicate a temple to Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks, for the following reason. Once upon a time a farmer had two beautiful daughters. One day these girls, getting into a dispute as to which one had a more beautiful backside, went onto the public street. And by chance a young man was passing by, the son of a rich old man. They showed themselves to him, and when he saw them he voted in favor of the older girl. And in fact, falling in love with her, when he got back to town, he took to his bed and told his younger brother everything that had happened. And the younger brother also went to the country and saw the girls, and he fell in love with the other daughter. And so when the boys' father tried to get them to marry someone of the upper classes, he couldn't persuade his sons, and so he brought the girls in from the country, with their father's permission, and married them to his sons. And so these girls were called fair-buttocked by the citizens, as Cercidas of Megalopolis says in his Iambic Verses: "There was a pair of beautiful-buttocked girls in Syracuse." And so these girls, when they got wealthy and famous, founded a temple of Aphrodite and called the goddess the Fair-buttocked, as Archelaus tells us in his Iambic Verses."
"The people of those days were so attached to their sensual pleasures that they even went so far as to dedicate a temple to Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks, for the following reason. Once upon a time a farmer had two beautiful daughters. One day these girls, getting into a dispute as to which one had a more beautiful backside, went onto the public street. And by chance a young man was passing by, the son of a rich old man. They showed themselves to him, and when he saw them he voted in favor of the older girl. And in fact, falling in love with her, when he got back to town, he took to his bed and told his younger brother everything that had happened. And the younger brother also went to the country and saw the girls, and he fell in love with the other daughter. And so when the boys' father tried to get them to marry someone of the upper classes, he couldn't persuade his sons, and so he brought the girls in from the country, with their father's permission, and married them to his sons. And so these girls were called fair-buttocked by the citizens, as Cercidas of Megalopolis says in his Iambic Verses: "There was a pair of beautiful-buttocked girls in Syracuse." And so these girls, when they got wealthy and famous, founded a temple of Aphrodite and called the goddess the Fair-buttocked, as Archelaus tells us in his Iambic Verses."
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She's Jenny from the Block. The block that will forever be known now as Kallipygos Street.
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(Anonymous) 2007-10-24 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)--Adam
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were looking for young men to amuse,
I'm stuck there.
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were looking for young men to amuse,
They hoped to marry
and the boys did tarry,
but no one could decide who to choose
Too bad I couldn't come up with something dirtier, but it does relate to the story somewhat...(I'm not sure if my syllable or metrics are correct, but it's the best I could do in 5 secs of poetry writing)
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Demanded verdicts from bypassers
Behold, callipygian
Rites lift darkness Stygian
From fortunate youths of high classes.
(You don't know me, but I was directed to this discussion by
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The Trojan War - Western Civ's seasonal reference :P
Who vied over who had the best caboose
The Paris they'd chosen's
Brother's tastes were opposin'
So each married the man with congruent views!
Re: The Trojan War - Western Civ's seasonal reference :P
Re: The Trojan War - Western Civ's seasonal reference :P
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