{"date":"January 18","id":"01-18","intro":["“Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, at which the audience never fails to laugh?” Like an up-to-date vaudeville team, Xanthias and Dionysus start off a dialogue that mingles wit and poetry with humor and keen satire."],"minutes":17,"readings":[{"author":"Aristophanes","end":449,"start":439,"volume":8,"work":"The Frogs"}],"slug":"january-18","status":"proofread","title":"Origin of Yale “Brekekekex-Ko-ax”","url":"/harvard-classics/january-18/","words":3350}