EPEIUS IN THE KITCHEN: OR ANCIENT GREEK FOLK TALES VINDICATED.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Davies, Malcolm
- Source
- Greece & Rome. Apr2014, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p91-101. 11p.
- Subject
- *TALE (Literary form)
*POETRY (Literary form)
- Language
- ISSN
- 0017-3835
Bertold Brecht's wonderful poem Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters (Questions from a Reading Workman) begins by posing (or making his ‘reading workman’ pose) a number of awkward questions:Wer baute das siebentorige Theben?In dem Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen.Haben die Könige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt?Und das mehrmals zerstörte Babylon –Wer baute es so viele Mal auf?Who built seven-gated Thebes?In books one only finds the names of kings.Did the Kings haul the blocks of stone all the way up?And Babylon, the much-destroyed city –Who was it built it up again so many times? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]