While Jung mentions the uroboros archetype several times, his concept of the uroboros is more general than that postulated in this work.

If you so much as look crossways at either of these women again I'll gutshoot you and leave you for the ants.

At the last minute, the hero regained consciousness and rolled out of the path of the tank.

What follows, as in many Attic plays, is a series of declamatory speeches, occasionally broken up with snatches of dialogue and the songs and dances of the chorus of foreign women, here costumed by Normandy Sherwood in flouncy, flowery festivalwear – even the male singers.