“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

Aristophanes

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About Aristophanes

Playwright Greek

Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a master of Old Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete, providing the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old...

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