Aristophanes – Greek Dramatist

Aristophanes

Aristophanes (c.448 B.C.–c.388 B.C), Greek playwright and comic poet, whose surviving plays are the only extant examples of Greek Old Comedy. Exact details of his birthplace and life are not known, but most likely he was educated in and lived in Athens. Besides his many dramatic works, much poetry is attributed to him.

 

 

 

 

 

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
– Aristophanes
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
– Aristophanes
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There is nothig so resistless as a woman in her ire,
She is wilder than a leopard, she is fiercer than a fire.
– Aristophanes
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