Classic Vs Modern Comparatist Prints

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

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

Mozart on a computer,

Playdough's The Republic

"I think someone's trying to play games with us."

A surprise in heaven

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

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

"I miss the Augean stables."

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

Tragedy/Schadenfreude

'Caesar salad?'

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

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

Sisyphus and coronavirus

Bedtime in Ancient Greece

Souvenirs.

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

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

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

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...'

"I'm really gonna miss Rome."

'Honey, I'm Rome!'

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

Vesta

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

Atlas carrying Earth about to slip on banana peel.