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
sex children husband
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
summer husband war
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
greek-poet until
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
believe greek-poet surely
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
desire greek-poet love name pursuit simply
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
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.
adversity grace trying
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
taste actors should
An actor should refine public taste.
two thieves theft
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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?