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Aristophanes. ca.
446 BC-385 BC. Greek comic poet.
The geometer Meton: "With the straight ruler I set to work to inscribe a
square within this circle; in its centre will be the market-place, into
which all the straight streets will lead, converging to this centre like
a star, which, although only orbicular, sends forth its rays in a
straight line from all sides."
THE BIRDS by Aristophanes, Part 15.
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
"The wise learn many things from their enemies.”
“Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.”
From the Publisher
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.'
