Hiya Terrible Tallypo, that's fascinating. I'm not an ancient historian (though I love ancient history and literatures!). I do teach medieval and Renaissance literature and am very interested in folk forms like proverbs, tales and jokes. I've only encountered the negative version (with proverbs you can usually find both--there was a me…
Hiya Terrible Tallypo, that's fascinating. I'm not an ancient historian (though I love ancient history and literatures!). I do teach medieval and Renaissance literature and am very interested in folk forms like proverbs, tales and jokes. I've only encountered the negative version (with proverbs you can usually find both--there was a medieval distinction between the "bonum" and "malum" significances)--maybe because it's been more popular in my lifetime of increasingly dispiriting politics! My father warned me as a young person always to remember that "the enemy of your enemy is not your friend."
Hiya Terrible Tallypo, that's fascinating. I'm not an ancient historian (though I love ancient history and literatures!). I do teach medieval and Renaissance literature and am very interested in folk forms like proverbs, tales and jokes. I've only encountered the negative version (with proverbs you can usually find both--there was a medieval distinction between the "bonum" and "malum" significances)--maybe because it's been more popular in my lifetime of increasingly dispiriting politics! My father warned me as a young person always to remember that "the enemy of your enemy is not your friend."