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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.)
Quote #1 on Social Struggle Quotes >> Youth and Ageist Oppression
“Strepsiades: ...[as your father], I am justly entitled to chastise you; and you to chastise your son, if you should have one.
Phidippides: But if I should not have one, I shall have wept for nothing, and you will die laughing at me.”
Source: "The Clouds," by Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, 419 BC.
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