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Complete Plays of Aristophanes
by Aristophanes
Edit, November 5th 2024: I named my pet snake after him.
If a man who lived a few thousand years before I was born can make me find something funny, it should be given to him as credit. If a man who lived a few thousand years before I was born gives better feminist rep then many authors of this current age, it should be given to him as credit. If a man makes Hermes beg a slave for food as a joke, it should be given to him as credit.
That is to say, Aristophanes is lauded for a reason.
If you can somehow get through the fact that you are reading a translated version of a play written twenty five hundred years ago, which I had a hard time doing in the first two plays (Acharnians and Knights), you'll find Aristophanes to be an amazing comedic play writer.
As Plato said (I know he said it because it is written on the back of this book, and all words written on the back of a book are law): "The Graces, seeking an imperishable sanctuary, found the soul of Aristophanes."
My favorite play was Frogs. My least favorite one is Acharnians for the sole reason that I could not understand a word of it.
If a man who lived a few thousand years before I was born can make me find something funny, it should be given to him as credit. If a man who lived a few thousand years before I was born gives better feminist rep then many authors of this current age, it should be given to him as credit. If a man makes Hermes beg a slave for food as a joke, it should be given to him as credit.
That is to say, Aristophanes is lauded for a reason.
If you can somehow get through the fact that you are reading a translated version of a play written twenty five hundred years ago, which I had a hard time doing in the first two plays (Acharnians and Knights), you'll find Aristophanes to be an amazing comedic play writer.
As Plato said (I know he said it because it is written on the back of this book, and all words written on the back of a book are law): "The Graces, seeking an imperishable sanctuary, found the soul of Aristophanes."
My favorite play was Frogs. My least favorite one is Acharnians for the sole reason that I could not understand a word of it.