Why I like Greek:

[ribbonthecat]

From Euripides' Cyclops

Comments

[youngcurmudgeon]

Dude. That's awesome. Why don't they write poetry like that anymore?

[ribbonthecat]

English doesn't seem to have the same capacity as Greek to be so poetically vulgar.

[looks_odd_to_me]

Not enough really great English language poets aren't also prudes? I think it's the people, not the language. I mean, you get it in Latin, too. Catullus.