THE BOOK OF
GREEKS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF GREEKS
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Chapter 16
For example, there was a blind Greek named nHomer,
2Who wrote comedies called the Iliad and the Odyssey,
3Which were about a very funny war between the Greeks and the Trojans.
4There was almost no end to Homer’s jokes.
5He invented the joke called “Take my wife… please!”
6Which is why oParis took Menelaus’s wife pHelen, all the way back to Troy,
7qThus starting the Trojan War,
8rBecause sMenelaus was only kidding,
9And took an entire army of Greeks with him to help explain this to Paris,
10Who was a Trojan and ttherefore didn’t have much of a sense of humor,
11Which is why it took the Greeks ten years to win the war,
12Although they had many funny adventures along the way,
13uIncluding the adventure of Agamemnon,
14vWho sacrificed his daughter wIphigenia to the Gods,
15For luck,
16xWhich upset Iphigenia’s mother yClytemnestra,
17Who decided to have an affair,
18And then convinced her zlover to help her kill Agamemnon when he came home,
19Which was a terribly funny Greek joke,
20That such a great personage would survive the whole war and then get killed in his bathtub at home,
21By his wife,
22Who found out that the joke was on her,
23When Agamemnon’s other children,
24aElectra and Orestes,
25Killed her,
26And, in turn, found out the joke was really on them,
27bBecause the Furies hounded them to death.
28Nor was this the only funny adventure in the Trojan War.
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