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    Aristophanes

    Read through the most famous quotes from Aristophanes




    Evil events from evil causes spring. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #events #evil #spring

    Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #mouth #open #see #send #shut

    Let each man exercise the art he knows. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #art #each #exercise #knows #man

    These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #get #how #impossible #live #poet

    You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #decide #heard #say #should #until

    A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #man #prospers #wherever

    Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #cities #foes #friends #high #learn

    Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #believe #gods #proof #shrines #surely

    Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #laws #lead #life #people #same

    The wise learn many things from their enemies. ↗


    — Aristophanes

    #many #their #things #wise






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    Thus the political conservatism of the plays might reflect the views of the wealthiest section of society on whose generosity comic dramatists depended for the success of their plays. The conservative views expressed in the plays might therefore reflect the attitudes of a dominant group in an unrepresentative audience.

    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 they are used to define the genre. 446 BC – ca. 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.

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