Aristophanes : (448-388 BC), Athenian poet & writer of comedy.
... the earth and in the sky, and makes the weaker argument defeat the. stronger, and teaches others to follow his example." It runs something like that. You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round,4 proclaiming that he is walking Page 51 on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever. I... per;, haps regarded Socrates as one of them, gave it weight and an air of respectability; Lycon was a rhetorician and contributed eloquence.. 3 a playwright: the comic poet, Aristophanes, burlesqued Socrates in his comedy The Clouds, produced in 423, by representing him as a Sophist of the worst type a quack scientist and rhetorician with neither religion nor morals. No doubt ...
... becomes Commander Page 144 in-chief of Athens. 449 BC — Acropolis is rebuilt and construction of the Parthenon begins. 445 BC — Aristophanes is born. "Thirty Year Peace" is signed between Sparta and Athens. 432 BC — Socrates participates in the battle of Potidaea in which he saves the life of Alcibiades, a former student... 414 BC — The Sicilian expedition of Athens ends in disaster, with the attacking Athenian fleet destroyed. Aristophanes's play Birds is performed for the first time. In the play, Aristophanes refers to pro-Spartan youth as "socratified." 413 BC — Sparta, supported by Persia, declares war on Athens. Sparta claims the Athenians had repeatedly violated the Peace ...
... some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. 81) God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82) If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect. God never takes His works ...
... The language indeed pullulates with compounds. It is true that they are usually composed of two members only, but compounds of three members are found, as tris-kako-daimōn , thrice-evil-fated and Aristophanes even perpetrates such forms as glischr-antilog- exepitriptos and sphragid-onuch-argo-komētēs . I have dwelt on these points because they leap to the eye in the perfection otherwise complete ...
... contributions of the concept of the meme are still largely conceptual – or philosophical.” 54 This suggestion that the philosophy of the meme is an activity practiced in the clouds would have had Aristophanes’ consent. It is rather puzzling to learn in Dawkins’ preface to Blackmore that Dennett has become “the philosophical mentor of all meme theorists.” 55 It should however be realized that the ...
... workmanship. The one learns & cries, "Behold how the Spirit has manifested itself in matter"; the other, "Behold, the touch of my Lover & Master, the perfect Artist, the hand omnipotent." 505) O Aristophanes of the universe, thou who watchest thy world and laughest sweetly to thyself, wilt thou not let me too see with divine eyes and share in thy worldwide laughters? 506) Kalidasa says in a daring ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 506 506—O Aristophanes of the universe, thou who watchest thy world and laughest sweetly to thyself, wilt thou not let Page 351 me too see with divine eyes and share in thy world-wide laughters? No doubt one must have a vision as total as the Divine Vision to be able to laugh at this world ...
... rest; therefore, also, Error is justified of her children. 80—To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. Yes, he means that what is true at one moment is no longer true at another. And that's what justifies the children of Error. Perhaps he means there's no such thing as error! Yes, ...
... Sophists and perhaps regarded Socrates as one of them, gave it weight and an air of respectability; Lycon was a rhetorician and contributed eloquence. a playwright: the comic poet, Aristophanes, burlesqued Socrates in his comedy the Clouds, produced in 423, by representing him as a Sophist of the worst type — a quack scientist and ; rhetorician with neither religion nor morals. No ...
... you mean by excess? Excess for somebody else. But if the quantity doesn't affect him, it can't be excess for him. DR. MANILAL: I submit, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: In Plato's Symposium, Socrates, Aristophanes, Agathon and others meet and discuss the nature of love, and drink wine. Everybody gets drunk except Socrates. Even after heavy drinking he keeps on discussing philosophy with some friends, while ...
... their heads, file in to bring me my breakfast (one can also have a complete bath in the finger-bowls). That apart, the situation I found here is as serious as possible (although the divine Aristophanes must laugh as usual). First C.P.N. is very weak, almost exhausted: every night, between 11 and 12 p.m., he is "attacked" — gnawing pains in the heart, oppression, and the usual suggestion: "Now ...
... free, without bringing down the entire edifice that we built over it, and without crushing the small cell along with it? That is where we really need a divine magician. We even suspect, along with Aristophanes, Moliere and Sri Aurobindo, that this magician must be something of a humorist. But let us be serious (for the time being). There are even those disquieting bombs that we are piling up like moles ...
... rest; therefore, also, Error is justified of her children. 80—To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. Yes, he means that what is true at one time is no longer true at another. And this is why "Error is justified of her children." Perhaps he means that there is no error. Yes, it is ...
... Aphorism - 81, 82, 83 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82—If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect. God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful Universe. Page ...
... and the play of psychological forces, the other because he writes not from a sense of the incongruous but from an emotion, from a strong poetic "indignation" against the things he sees around him. Aristophanes is a comic creator—like Shakespeare when he turns in that direction—the satiric is only a strong line in his creation; that is a different kind of inspiration, not the ordinary satire. Pope attempted ...
... the echoing names of far countries of the world". 30 Then he has remarked apropos of Euripides's Andromeda : "We who possess Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra cannot share the rage of Aristophanes at this first staging of romantic passion." 31 Finally, he has the observation: "There is much, then, that is 'romantic' in classical Greek literature; yet it would Page 53 ...
... Mother would say afterwards. One of his aphorisms goes as follows: ‘To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes.’ For reasons unknown to Nirodbaran — ‘Let it have no name,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo — Sri Aurobindo in his correspondence with him one day started writing in a humorous vein, something he and the Mother ...
... . So I am listening to you now. ( Satprem reads ) 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. Page 23 ( After a silence ) We'll see on Monday. It's rather odd, at times it comes in torrents (more than streams): forms, images, expressions, revelations, it comes ...
... for the moment, nothing. Read me those aphorisms again. 81—God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais. 82—If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect.... Indeed! ...God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful ...
... and the play of psychological forces, the other because he writes not from a sense of the incongruous but from an emotion, from a strong poetic 'indignation' against the things he sees around him. Aristophanes is a comic creator - like Shakespeare when he turns in that direction - the satire is only a strong line in his creation; that is a different kind of inspiration, not the ordinary satire. Pope attempted ...
... achievement and creative ability. In every field there appeared in that age men of outstanding gifts. In the realm of tragic drama there were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; in comedy there was Aristophanes. Herodotus the father of History was there and the master sculptor Phidias. Above all, there was Socrates with his band of young disciples. All of them produced their wonderful work during this ...
... reading. Nothing seemed to escape this voracious adolescent (except cricket, which held as little interest for him as Sunday school.) Shelley and "Prometheus Unbound," the French poets, Homer, Aristophanes, and soon all of European thought – for he quickly came to master enough German and Italian to read Dante and Goethe in the original – peopled a solitude of which he has said nothing. He never sought ...
... the apes call "God"? Probably lightning, thunder... something very natural and material. What we call "God" is perhaps more natural and material—and less stupid—than our Mental Age imagines. O Aristophanes of the universe,. .. 10 Sri Aurobindo said. But the transition to the great Consciousness, to the true and total Milieu, is quite "surprising" for an animal body which sees its old habits ...
... Greek and Latin ... and walk out, throwing up his hands in the air: “He knows Greek! He knows Latin!” Such a man obviously could not make bombs. And Moliere, somewhere between the Rig-Veda and Aristophanes, burst out laughing. All of life was there. The Supramental Such was the life they led until Mother’s arrival. He was forty-two years old, She was thirty-six. The day after their first ...
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