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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 #2 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Elections and The State
“POSEIDON: Oh! democracy! whither, oh! whither are you leading us? Is it possible that the gods have chosen such an envoy?”
Source: "The Birds," by Aristophanes, c. 414 BCE, translator unknown.
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