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George Carlin. Unlike many of the present day social critic comedians he was actually funny. He could be bawdy . . . he wasn’t afraid of taboo . . . he was a bit of a performer. Also, he was popular and as such he was a hard target for political censorship. I’m thinking Aristophanes and Carlin would be a riot at a party.
Yes, no doubt. The problem that we have in the 21st century is what exactly is meant by lovers. In todays society the term lover has connotations of a sexual nature . . . more physical and less cerebral. I’m not quite sure that is what the ancients thought about as “love”. Not being present 2,700-plus years ago I can just speculate, however, after reading Plato’s Symposium, I got the feeling that physical (i.e. sexual) love was more basal and that the cerebral love was the “feeling” they were looking for. An older male was meant to be a mentor to a younger man, just as a father, today, is considered a mentor to his son. Likewise a father “loves” his son . . . obviously not sexually, but in a more cerebral context.
I’m thinking that this is the love between Patroclus and Achilles . . . although I’m not sure that the analogy exactly fits as Petroclus is older than Achilles but you get my point.
