Aristophanes

• “Believe me, you will understand Aristophanes only less than you will understand Æschylus himself if you confuse Aristophanes’ mockery of Olympus with modern mockery.”

  X. English Literature in Our Universities (I)

• “In the next, in _Aristophanes 'Apology_, we first find her in matured strength, almost mastering Aristophanes; and afterwards in the depth of grief, as she flies with her husband over the seas to”

  The Poetry Of Robert Browning

• “The _Lokasenna_, a poem whose author has been called the Aristophanes of the Western Islands, is a dramatic piece in which Loki, the Northern Satan, appearing in the house of the gods, is allowed to bring his railing accusations against them and remind them of their doings in the "old days.”

  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature

• “Not contented with resting his objections to dramatic immorality and religion, Jeremy labours to confute the poets of the 17th century, by drawing them into comparison with Plautus and Aristophanes, which is certainly judging of one crooked line by another.”

  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden

• “Gresham's law ought to be called Aristophanes 'law.”

  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915

• “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.”

  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces

• “Aristophanes, which is certainly inexcusable, I think, to judge properly of it, it would be necessary to lay aside the prejudices of birth, nations, and times, and to imagine we live in those remote ages in a state purely democratical.”

  The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)

• “Readers of Plato's Symposium, for example, may recall Aristophanes 'absurd myth of creation: men and women were originally egglike creatures with eight limbs, and one head but two faces.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4

• “‡ As the cultural center of Greece, ancient Athens was home to influential writers and thinkers such as Aristophanes, Euripides, Socrates, and Plato.”

  Athens

• “To me it appears impossible to read the line without seeing that Pope had in his mind the latter idea, that of poor, little, shabby, statureless monosyllables, as opposed to big, bouncing, brave, sonorous polysyllables, such as Aristophanes called [Greek: hræmata hippokræmna].”

  Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850

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