An alexandrine is a bit of light verse about Alexander the Great, right? Mithradates Eupator asked, on Facebook, about the identity of the first woman who slept with Alexander, revealing only that she was from Larisa, so I composed a limerick:
There once was a girl from Larisa
who went by the name of Melissa
with whom Alexander
began to philander
and was hotter than a plate of harissa.
Tacitus flaccidus
The girl from Larisa who
Bonked Alexander and
Found him not Great,
Got from his teacher an
Aristotelian
Lesson in unity
On her next date.
The second of the two is most excellent.
Posted by: Chris | December 03, 2012 at 04:27 PM
One feels that you could have made something out of the famous Macedonian pike being called a "sarissa."
Posted by: implied otter | December 07, 2012 at 08:34 PM
No doubt I could haveāhad I but known.
Posted by: ben w | December 07, 2012 at 10:13 PM