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- The Origin Of The Peloponnesia... Be not surprised, most ...
- Song Of The Clouds (From The C... CLOUD-MAIDENS that float...
- Chorus Of Women They're always abusing the women, As a ...
- A Rainy Day On The Farm How sweet it is to see the new-sown ...
- The Harvest Oh, 'tis sweet, when fields are ringing With the...
- The Poet's Apology Our poet has never as yet Esteemed it ...
- The Call Of The Nightingale Awake! awake! Sleep no more, my ...
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 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 they are in fact used to define the genre. 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 out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander contributing to the trial and execution of ... more »
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The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War
DICAEOPOLIS
Be not surprised, most excellent spectators,
If I that am a beggar have presumed
To claim an audience upon public matters,
Even in a comedy; for comedy
Is conversant in all the rules of justice,
And can distinguish betwixt right and wrong.
The words I speak are bold, but just and true.
Cleon at least cannot accuse me now,
That I defame the city before strangers,
For this is the Lenaean festival,
And here we meet, all by ourselves alone;
No deputies are arrived as yet with tribute,
No strangers or allies: but here we sit
A chosen ...
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