(meh, theme’s been done to death by others….except this one depicts the euro as Greece’s Trojan horse. Yeah, ‘twas the euro’s fault for tempting the Greek government of the time into a little creative book-keeping and cheaper debt. :-| )
I’d say it would be the other way around, the Greeks being the trojan horse for the Eurozone. Timeo danaos et dona euros ;) .
Still, we’ll see how it turns out. I’m skeptical of the gloom-and-doom talk about the Euro. I think it may be several economists not being able to keep their pet theories (or dreams) out of their analyses.
^^ I think it should be something like “timeo danaos et euros ferentes.” (Though I think the meter is wrong.) But I don’t really see how the analogy works. The cartoonists seem to know just a few things about the Greeks, so they use what they know, over and over. I thought the Medusa cartoon was the best.
I certainly hope you all are right that this is not necessarily quite so serious. It just makes me nervous about the recovery.
OmqR-IV.0 about 14 years ago
(meh, theme’s been done to death by others….except this one depicts the euro as Greece’s Trojan horse. Yeah, ‘twas the euro’s fault for tempting the Greek government of the time into a little creative book-keeping and cheaper debt. :-| )
4uk4ata about 14 years ago
I’d say it would be the other way around, the Greeks being the trojan horse for the Eurozone. Timeo danaos et dona euros ;) .
Still, we’ll see how it turns out. I’m skeptical of the gloom-and-doom talk about the Euro. I think it may be several economists not being able to keep their pet theories (or dreams) out of their analyses.
lonecat about 14 years ago
^^ I think it should be something like “timeo danaos et euros ferentes.” (Though I think the meter is wrong.) But I don’t really see how the analogy works. The cartoonists seem to know just a few things about the Greeks, so they use what they know, over and over. I thought the Medusa cartoon was the best.
I certainly hope you all are right that this is not necessarily quite so serious. It just makes me nervous about the recovery.