Onasander Posted December 4, 2013 Report Share Posted December 4, 2013 (edited) Phoenix of Colophon http://books.google.com/books?id=Vx2gJyWxrtMC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&ots=qj70Hdpsj5&focus=viewport&dq=Phoenix+of+Colophon&output=html_text So..... umm..... So, how do I say this..... Was ancient Rome one giant gay musical like the recent movie Les Miserables, where everyone is singing? I was checking him out due to his supposed links to Cynicism, and this is the first I have come across such a mention as a 'Traditional Begging Song'. Was there singing of Nessun Dorma? Did the Cynics invent the Opera? Edited December 4, 2013 by Onasander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted December 4, 2013 Report Share Posted December 4, 2013 Was ancient Rome one giant gay musical like the recent movie Les Miserables, where everyone is singing? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted December 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2013 Ha ha ha, apparently he used to walk begging for money holding a dead Raven, claiming it wasn't for him, but for the raven.... Reminds me of Diogenes begging to the statues in the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 I just read this in the fragments of hierocles: For that which is advantageous to the country is common to each of the parts of it; since the whole without the parts is nothing. [1] And vice versa, that which is advantageous to the citizen extends also to the city, if it is assumed as beneficial to the citizen. For that which is useful to a dancer, so far as he is a dancer, will also be advantageous to the whole choir. Depositing, therefore, all this reasoning in the discursive power of the soul, we shall receive much light from it in particulars, so that we (p82) shall never omit to perform what is due from us to our country. Yep, one big gay musical. They had dancers attached to the choirs even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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