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Innovative Dithyrambic Poet, Exponent of "New Music," Ridiculed by Aristophanes but Outsider Chosen as Victor at the Dionysia Theater Competition
: An innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the "new music") in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds... (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #12 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Eccentric Thought
“On my light wings I soar off to Olympus; in its capricious flight my Muse flutters along the thousand paths of poetry in turn...”
Source: "The Birds," by Aristophanes, c. 414 BCE, translator unknown.
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