Το κύριο χαρακτηριστικό του #πλούτου, σύμφωνα με τον #Αριστοφάνη, είναι ότι του αρέσει να επιδεικνύεται. The main characteristic of #wealth, according to #Aristophanes, is that it likes to show off. #ancient #Greece #αρχαία #Ελλάδα
Fair.
OTOH,
"Ah, the generals. They are many, but WHAT USE ARE THEY?"
#Aristophanes
What #Aristophanes would be posting if he were alive today:
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#eattherich, #catvideos, #sodumbitjustmightwork, #stopthemadness, #dumbesttimeline
Feb 6-8 & 13-15 Buninyong Botanic Gardens (near Ballarat, Victoria) - The #Birds by #Aristophanes - book www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Info: timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/liv...
I remembered! It was for this:
Aristophanes Four Comedies.
#bdelykleon #aristophanes
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.” ― Aristophanes
My new article on #Aristophanes and #Cratinus is out! In this article, I’m interested in how ancient comedy writers reflected on the reasons to go to war. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
You can read it here: revistas.um.es/myrtia/artic...
It’s obvious that the soul of every lover longs for something else; his soul cannot say what it is, but like an oracle it has a sense of what it wants, and like an oracle it hides behind a riddle.
- #Plato, from #Aristophanes' speech in ‘ #Symposium’
Me: "brek-ek-ek-ek"
Son's Greek history prof, halfway across the room: "co-ax, co-ax."
#aristophanes #thefrogs
#Premiere für #Aristophanes am 31. Oktober: „Compania Sincara bringt: #Frieden“
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#Leipzig #Schauspiel #CompaniaSincara
My book on #AncientDemagogues is already on Amazon (soon there will be a #kindle version as well): www.amazon.es/dp/B0FTVDM7BL
#ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #AncientBlueSky #Aristophanes #Thucydides
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#Lysistrata
#Aristophanes 🎭
Picture of a poster that says Aristophanes' Clouds. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of three women dressed in ancient Greek gowns with clouds for heads.
Picture of a poster that says Euripides' Cyclops. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of the head of a statue of a cyclops and drawings of three satyrs on different positions.
Picture of an ancient Greek theatre with five actors dressed as satyrs and on the background the sky with the torsos and heads of four actresses dressed as clouds. On top of the picture it says Thiasos Theatre
Our friends at Thiasos Theatre are performing two comedic plays at The Cockpit Theatre, London, 16th to 20th September: Euripides' Cyclops and Aristophanes' Clouds. Not to be missed!!
#euripides #cyclops #aristophanes #clouds #ancientdrama
Turn your minds to our words, our etherial words, for the words of the birds last forever!"
- #Aristophanes, 'Birds', 685-688
"Hear us, you who are no more than leaves always falling, you mortals benighted by nature,
You enfeebled & powerless creatures of earth always haunting a world of mere shadows,
Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams, you ephemeral things, you human beings:
- #Aristophanes, 'Birds', 685-688
Charon (James Robin) with a banjo, and Xanthius (Eddy O'Leary) with his rubber chicken. #dubiousunderworlds #theatre #aristophanes #art #ink #cartoon
...Vorsicht, derb.
Da hilft es nur, #Lysistrata 2.0 #Aristophanes
dass wir Frauen statt Sexstreik das Glied des Partners, am besten im schlappen Zustand, fotografieren und die Fotos überall (ver)teilen 🙄
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A brand new shirt showing up soon! (It's always frustrating with designs like this that no matter how hard I try, Redbubble still has a white item that will appear blank!) #Shirt #aristophanes #frogs
I wrote 34,000 words for just one of my clients in August, which is my excuse for this 5,500-word podcast being rather late (link goes to transcript, show should be in feeds soon): #booksky #classicsky #aristophanes booksofalltime.co.uk/2025/08/31/e...
Next week I will offer a lecture on #ancientdemagogues and conspiracy in #Aristophanes and #Thucydides. More info: www.instagram.com/encuentroint...
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
#BostonWeekend 29/x
I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:
Sun #THEATRE: #AncientGreece x #Hitchcock x #60sRock - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by […]
image of coloured photographs with images of a performance of a Classical Greek comedy
image of coloured photographs with images of a performance of a Classical Greek comedy
Image of a musical score of Aristophabnes' birds
Image of a drawing showing two men wearing some feathers on their backs and arms, a costume design for a classical comedy
Did anyone said "birds"? Costume design, music score and some performance pictures of Aristophanes' Birds and other comedies. Beautiful findings in our Aristophanes' drawer...
#aristophanes #classics #reception #birds #performance
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #restlessclock #riskin #johndee #greek #trinity #cambridge #automaton #dungbeetle #aristophanes #magus #elizabeth
Google #Lysistrata. #Aristophanes
Pencil doodle of my Azem, Aristophanes. She has short curly salt-and-pepper hair, pointed ears, and a mischievous smile with smile lines around her eyes.
i really like this doodle of aristophanes #aristophanes
Verê kamcîn est bî? Demokrasî ya kî Komedî?
#Aristophanes #Vîyana #Vienne #Kurdî #Zazakî #Kirdkî #Kirmanckî #Wien
