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Great Grandfather of Comedy, Author of the First Sex Joke(s), Destroyer and Upholder of Traditions
: 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. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #1 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Science and Religion
“Strepsiades: O highly honored Clouds, for now they cover all things.
Socrates: Did you not, however, know, nor yet consider, these to be goddesses?
Strepsiades: No, by Jupiter! But I thought them to be mist, and dew, and smoke.”
Source: "The Clouds," by Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, 419 BC.
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