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.
best-friend travel two
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
witty political politics
Under every stone lurks a politician.
art fees
There's no art where there's no fee.
children men way
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
clouds centaurs bulls
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
father men age
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
men gold honest
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
poverty monsters fearful
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
men slavery half
A slave is but half a man.
wealth excellent
Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.
ifs
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
work circles four
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
habit crabs walks
You cannot make a crab walk straight.