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- Song Of The Clouds (From The C... CLOUD-MAIDENS that float...
- Chorus Of Women They're always abusing the women, As a ...
- The Call Of The Nightingale Awake! awake! Sleep no more, my ...
- 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 Cloud Chorus Hither, come hither, ye Clouds renowned, and...
- The Poet's Apology Our poet has never as yet Esteemed it ...
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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Song Of The Clouds (From The Clouds)
CLOUD-MAIDENS that float on forever,
Dew-sprinkled, fleet bodies, and fair,
Let us rise from our Sire's loud river,
Great Ocean, and soar through the air
To the peaks of the pine-covered mountains where the pines hang as tressed of hair.
Let us seek the watch towers undaunted,
Where the well-watered cornfields abound,
And through murmurs of rivers nymph-haunted,
The songs of the sea-waves resound;
And the sun in the sky never wearies of spreading his radiance around.
Let us cast off the haze
Of the mists from our band,
Till with far-seeing ...
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