Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Lucian, Charon Or The Inspectors, 19
nan for the life of man. Have you ever stood at the foot of a waterfall, and marked the bubbles rising to the surface and gathering into foam? Some are quite small, and break as soon as they are born. Others last longer; new ones come to join them, and they swell up to a great size: yet in the end they burst, as surely as the rest; it cannot be otherwise. There you have human life. All men are bubbles, great or small, inflated with the breath of life. Some are destined to last for a brief space, others perish in the very moment of birth: but all must inevitably burst. HERM: Homer compares mankind to leaves. Your simile is full as good as his. CH: And being the things they are, they do — the things you
nan Have you ever stood at the foot of a waterfall, and marked the bubbles rising to the surface and gathering into foam? Some are quite small, and break as soon as they are born. Others last longer; new ones come to join them, and they swell up to a great size: yet in the end they burst, as surely as the rest; it cannot be otherwise. There you have human life. All men are bubbles, great or small, inflated with the breath of life. Some are destined to last for a brief space, others perish in the very moment of birth: but all must inevitably burst.Her. Homer compares mankind to leaves. Your simile is full as good as his.

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ainigmata	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69
heterotopias, comic	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69
homer, parody/pastiche	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69
parody, of classical literature	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69
satire	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69
theatre'	Alexiou and Cairns, Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) 69