Believe me, you will understand Aristophanes only less than you will understand Æschylus himself if you confuse Aristophanes’ mockery of Olympus with modern mockery.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. English Literature in Our Universities (I)] Reference

Gresham's law ought to be called Aristophanes 'law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915] Reference

This has filled them with an implacable hatred against Aristophanes, which is mingled with the spirit of philosophy; a spirit, wherever it comes, more dangerous than any other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

(Aristophanes is another story.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Literary Criticism] Reference

"Aristophanes" (Ancient Classics for English Readers): edit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

I, also, have often heard him quote long passages from the Greek dramatists, particularly from "Aristophanes," really.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

Very little is known about the life of Aristophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

And applause, as Aristophanes said, is what artists want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack The Dripper Returns] Reference

Aristophanes as the forerunner of Shakespeare, his only one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

Aristophanes alone lays claim here to particular commemoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

The idea was suggested by a scene in the frogs of Aristophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference

But, hey, that Aristophanes knew how to pack fannies into the seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Make Love, Not War] Reference

An "ideal" state of society was the last thing Aristophanes desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

This conclusion is supported by allusions in Aristophanes and in Plato's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

"Whirl is king, having driven out Zeus," wrote Aristophanes 2,400 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Rest] Reference

Aristophanes, he maintains, did not possess the genuine element in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

So, as a T shirt back in Aristophanes 'day probably proclaimed, farce happens.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Woman, I Am Man] Reference

There is as much system in the comedies of Aristophanes as in the dialogues of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Aristophanes discuss certain social or ethical problems, they are inspired by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

To his poignant wit, and poisonous malignity, Aristophanes joined great intrepidity of spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

Aristophanes are the inviolable Trinity of poetry, even to the extent of being reducible to One.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

Aristophanes the execration of every man who has the slightest pretensions to virtue or honesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

"Lysistrata," the Aristophanes play, ends with a celebration of Sparta, who was Athens 'enemy at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gettysburg, Ground Zero: Secular Sacred Spaces] Reference

It is easy to see that Aristophanes, already married, would have confided in any one sooner than my father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

The date of oil-lamps in Greece can not be stated with accuracy; they were known at the time of Aristophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The comedies of Aristophanes are universally regarded as the standard of Attic writing in its greatest purity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

From the evidence it is certain that Aristophanes left no money behind; and he had not much (in the way of) bronze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

The plea that the question of changing customs arises is not valid, for customs ratified by Aristophanes, by Rabelais, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

At a far earlier period Aristophanes speaks of "a transparent substance used to light fires with," usually translated glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Aristophanes before he has made acquaintance with the social and political movements of which Pericles and Cleon were the representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

So remember that Nicophemus and Aristophanes were put to death without a trial, before the arrival of any one to (hear) them proved guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference