Classic Vs Modern Comparatist Gifts

Book Shop: The great American Novel and The great American tweet.

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

Venus

'Where was the TSA?'

Archimedes statue with a lever

Mozart on a computer,

Playdough's The Republic

A surprise in heaven

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

"I miss the Augean stables."

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

'Caesar salad?'

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

Tragedy/Schadenfreude

"The sign ruins our surprise attack, but it's a big OSHA fine if we don't have it."

Sisyphus and coronavirus

"Is there a way to disable Narcissus' self-view?"

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

Souvenirs.

Bedtime in Ancient Greece

"I've been reading a book of famous quotations. It's amazing how many are by a famous Greek named Anonymous."

Take a break, Archimedes. A nice soak in the bath will work wonders.

"Hail, Caesar! The barbarians have been beaten back, and Rome is still Numero Uno."

Romans.

'Oi! Man is not a political animal in here!'

'Mum, I don't care what these nasty kids say about my brothers Romulus and Remus being adopted: I love them all the same...'

To the Greeks' dismay, before the Trojans discovered the horse it was stolen by portcullis pirates.

'Go home Daisy, the lions have got your spot!'

Vesta

'Honey, I'm Rome!'

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

"It makes sense when you see the second painting with the lego."

"Thanks for inventing the god Dionysus. Now the whole country has a reason to drink more wine."