Punishment by Radish
Emily Wilson: Aristophanes Remixed, 21 October 2021
Four Plays
by Aristophanes, translated by Aaron Poochigian.
Norton, 398 pp., £29.75, March 2021,978 1 63149 650 9 Show More
by Aristophanes, translated by Aaron Poochigian.
Norton, 398 pp., £29.75, March 2021,
“... When Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released ‘WAP’ in August 2020, ‘conservative’ commentators such as Tucker Carlson expressed outrage that the song might corrupt ‘your granddaughters’; Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post celebrated it as an ‘ode to female sexual pleasure’. The video featured the two long-lashed goddesses twerking their way through a gilded McMansion in fabulous candy-coloured outfits, like bethonged Disney princesses ... ”