Who is Aristophanes

Aristophanes (; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled ou...
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Aristophanes Poems

  • Chorus Of Women, From The "thesmophoriazusae
    They're always abusing the women,
    As a terrible plague to men;
    They say we're the root of all evil,
    And repeat it again and again, ...
  • The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War
    DICAEOPOLIS

    Be not surprised, most excellent spectators,
    If I that am a beggar have presumed ...
  • A Rainy Day On The Farm
    How sweet it is to see the new-sown cornfield fresh and even,
    With blades just springing from the soil that only ask a shower
    from heaven.
    Then, while kindly rains are falling, indolently to rejoice, ...
  • The Appeal Of The Chorus
    If A veteran author had wished to engage
    Our assistance to-day, for a speech from the stage,
    We scarce should have granted so bold a request:
    But this author of ours, as the bravest and best, ...
  • Grand Chorus Of Birds
    Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the
    leaves' generations,
    That are little of might, that are molded of mire, unenduring
    and shadowlike nations, ...
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Heaven 5 Sea 5 Sweet 4 Never 4 Away 3 Year 3 Bold 3 King 3 Pray 3 Bring 3


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Danjzs1: the primary importance of logic & physiology in philosophy should recall the fact socrates taught speech and the natural things in the thinkery in aristophanes’s the clouds. “philosophy is medicine for the soul [psyche].” –cicero passion (pathe) meant affliction or disease.
Vedatcitak620: aristophanes: “a wise man is an educated mind capable of entertaining an idea without accepting it.”
Danjzs1: i used the example of spock not letting the away crew bury the dead in “galileo seven” as an example of stoics not making good rulers. no respect for the sacred. although not like aristophanes’s lack of respect… (he’d be a horrible crewman, like dercylidas).
Sacha_coward: there is also a spider called aristophanes but we don't talk about him...
_hits_music_: scream (ft. aristophanes) - grimes
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