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But he who would provoke me should remember That those who rifle wasps’ nests will be stung! - Aristophanes
" "But he who would provoke me should remember
That those who rifle wasps’ nests will be stung!
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About Aristophanes
Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant, plus a thousand fragments of the others.
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Ἀριστοφάνης
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Father of Comedy
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This is the first of the series of three Comedies — 'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata' — produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace.
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