Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
voice politician breeding
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
eye mouths zeus
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
greek-poet until
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.