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Greek Classics: Better Book Titles

Posted: 02/22/11 09:45 AM ET
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Comedian Dan Wilbur would like to help you understand the Classics. Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles will trim the fat and reveal whole stories in a single image! The great works of Virgil, Plato, and Sophocles can finally be read without having to trudge through page after page of SparkNotes!

To see more, go to Betterbooktitles.com.

Reader submitted titles are posted every Friday.

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Comedian Dan Wilbur would like to help you understand the Classics. Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles wil...
Comedian Dan Wilbur would like to help you understand the Classics. Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles wil...
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Aelfgifu
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07:43 AM on 02/27/2011
Wouldn't the alternative Oedipus title be "How I Met *MY* Mother?"
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altgrave
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05:32 AM on 02/26/2011
many of these might fall under "the gods must be crazy".

(apologies if i was beaten to this - i couldn't get the earlier comments to load!)
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SirOtter
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10:43 PM on 02/25/2011
You could pick seven or eight alternative titles for Oedipus Rex from Tom Lehrer's song on the subject.
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Kristina Kardum
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06:34 PM on 02/24/2011
Epic of Gilgamesh is not a Greek classics
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Someone Out There
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01:31 PM on 02/28/2011
Nor is the Aeneid. Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) is definitely a Roman name.
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02:13 PM on 02/24/2011
Around the World in 10 Years...
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Steven Froehlich
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09:32 AM on 02/24/2011
Oresteia: Bad Blood
--alternatively: Blood Not-So-Simple
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04:42 PM on 02/23/2011
Just because the new title TELLS you the whole book in one sentence does not make it an improvement over the original. Book titles back then held a little mystery, creating angst, and anxiety to get into the pages. Nowadays today's titles subscribe to the (mistaken) belief that people want to be reassured before they read the book.
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Nicholas Rowley
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11:44 AM on 02/27/2011
Yeah the "Better" titles aren't even pithy for the most part, they're mostly just lame.
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03:31 PM on 02/28/2011
You'll get no argument there from me...
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01:59 PM on 02/23/2011
Paris, on first seeing a thousand ships anchored just off Troy: "Oops!"
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A free man creates himself.
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11:11 AM on 02/23/2011
Mommy Dearest?
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naschkatze
A free man creates himself.
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11:50 AM on 02/23/2011
That was meant for Medea, not Oedipus.
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07:26 AM on 02/23/2011
Oedipus Rex: "Incest for Dummies"
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05:20 PM on 02/22/2011
As a Classics major, I love this.
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02:12 PM on 02/22/2011
"You've been a very naughty boy, Catiline" by Cicero.
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01:14 PM on 02/22/2011
I don't understand what The Odyssey has to do with flirting with anyone's wife.
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01:26 PM on 02/22/2011
The suitors? Maybe go back to Book 23...
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Greg Heynen
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01:27 PM on 02/22/2011
Odysseus slaughters all of the "suitors" that have been hanging around his house while he was at Troy (and then traveling home). The suitors had been trying to convince his wife, Penelope, that Odysseus was dead, and that she should marry one of them. Odysseus was a wealthy guy, and they all wanted to marry that wealth. He opened a major can of classical whoopass on them when he made it home.
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12:49 PM on 02/22/2011
sex with mother is blinding -- king edipo
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Leviathan21
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12:41 PM on 02/22/2011
"Not tonight, dear. I have a headache" by Aristophanes

"Motherf*cker" by Sophocles
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