User:Lucretius~enwiki/sandbox3


 * User:Lucretius~enwiki/Aristophanes and the coal basket - This userbox is a plea for tolerance. It features a quote from Aristophanes' play 'The Acharnians' where the hero threatens to kill a coal basket if the chorus of Acharnians don't leave him alone. The leader of the chorus pleads with him not to hurt the basket because 'This basket of coal is my fellow-citizen'. Acharnians were generally associated with the coal/charcoal industry just as today Scots are associated with bagpipes or Americans are associated with cowboy hats or Frenchmen are associated with cheeses etc.
 * User:Lucretius~enwiki/Aristophanes and the dung beetle - This userbox is a plea for co-operation. It features a quote from Aristophanes' play 'Peace' where the hero is ascending to Olympus on the back of a giant dung beetle, to ask the gods to end the war with Sparta, and he pleads with the spectators not to do anything that would distract the beetle from its task.