Aristophanes Quotes
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
Citations
Aristophanes. The Clouds. Translated by William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1962, p. 55.
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Aristophanes (/ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
