Aristophanes, in Plato's Symposium, mentions women who love women, but uses the term trepesthai ( to be focused on ) instead of eros, which was applied to other erotic relationships between men, and between men and women.

A scholium to line 971 of Aristophanes ' The Birds mentions a cult " to Pandora, the earth, because she bestows all things necessary for life ".

Aristophanes mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, reports that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas.

* Aristophanes: The author explains his cautious approach to his own career and he mentions his own baldness ( lines 507-50 ).

The character Meton of Athens in the play The Birds by Aristophanes ( first performed in 414 BCE ) mentions squaring the circle.

Aristophanes mentions that people used to swear by birds instead of by the gods, adding that the soothsayer Lampon still swears by the goose " whenever he's going to cheat you ".

We are assured in lines 62-3 that Aristophanes won't make mincemeat of him again but promises mean nothing in a comedy and he receives more treatment in lines 197, 242, 409, 596, 759, 1220, 1224, 1237, 1285 as well as numerous indirect mentions, notably as an untrustworthy dog.

Another of Aristophanes ' plays, Peace, also mentions how war was being brewed in Megara by the god of war.

* 424 BC Aristophanes " lens " is a glass globe filled with water.

The earliest evidence of " a magnifying device, a convex lens forming a magnified image " was Aristophanes ' " lens ", from 424 BC, a glass globe filled with water.

In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".

Aristophanes parodied such teachings in his play The Clouds by putting a prayer to air in the mouth of Socrates.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

Simply the names of the characters in this particular play of Aristophanes make a political statement.

Aristophanes, in his play Lysistrata, creates the scenario of an Athenian woman's anti-war sex strike during the Peloponnesian War of 431 – 404 BC, and the play has gained an international reputation for its anti-war message.

Aristophanes famously parodies the clever inversions that sophists were known for in his play The Clouds.

" The fact of bad money being used in preference to good money is also noted by Aristophanes in his play The Frogs, which dates from around the end of the 5th century BC.

The play depicts Socrates, a contemporary of Aristophanes, as tinkering with odd devices and performing implausible experiments to determine the nature of the clouds and sky, and presents his philosophical method as a means for deceiving others and escaping blame, closer to the later descriptions of his opponents, the Sophists, than to those usually ascribed to him.

* Aristophanes ' play The Frogs is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Birds is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play, a new comedy called The Ecclesiazusae, is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Acharnians is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Peace is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Wasps is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Clouds is performed as is Sophocles ' play Maidens of Trachi and The Putine ( The Bottle ), by Cratinus.

* Aristophanes ' play Plutus is performed.

The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey, Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled The Sausage, and Aristophanes ' play The Knights is about a sausage-vendor who is elected leader.

In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: " He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve.

The playwright and poet Aristophanes parodied this festival in the play, Thesmophoriazusae, but he did not give much detail about the festival itself.

" Agoracritus " is also a character ( the sausage seller ) in Greek playwright Aristophanes ' play The Knights.

Apparently as criticism, about 2, 400 years ago, in 390 BCE, Aristophanes wrote a play, Ecclesiazusae, about women gaining legislative power and governing Athens, Greece, on a limited principle of equality.

Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp-inserted to sound more aristocratic.

Aristophanes, a playwright of 5th century Athens, wrote plays of political satire such as The Wasps, The Birds and The Clouds.

Aristophanes ’ comedy Clouds, produced in 423 BC, portrays Socrates as a sophist.

Clouds is not the only Aristophanes comedy which portrays conflict between an older man and his younger counterpart.

A more whimsical prototype of the mad scientist can be found in Aristophanes ' comedy The Clouds.

He appears in a play of Eupolis, and in The Clouds ( 423 BC ) and The Birds ( 414 BC ) of Aristophanes.

Aristophanes, in The Clouds, deals more indulgently with him than with Socrates ; and Xenophon's Socrates, for the purpose of combating the voluptuousness of Aristippus, borrows from the book of " the wise Prodicus " the story of the choice of Hercules.

The Clouds ( / Nephelai ) is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens.

The Clouds represents a departure from the main themes of Aristophanes ' early plays-Athenian politics, the Peloponnesian War and the need for peace with Sparta.

Aristophanes however had singled Cleon out for special treatment in his previous play The Knights in 424 and there are relatively few references to him in The Clouds.

Freed from political and war-time issues, Aristophanes focuses in The Clouds on a broader issue that underlies many conflicts depicted in his plays-the issue of Old versus New, or the battle of ideas.

Tragic poets sometimes produced their plays in other cities ( Euripides ' play Andromache for example was possibly performed in Argos just before The Clouds appeared at the City Dionysia ) yet comic poets in Aristophanes ' time wrote specifically for local audiences and their plays were studded with topical jokes that only a local audience could understand.

In the following year ( 423 BC ) he won first prize with The Bottle-a satire on his drinking problem-which was the same year Aristophanes came third and last with The Clouds.

* Works not included in that are the Prolegomena, the Letters to Heyne ( Berlin, 1797 ), the commentary on the Leptines ( Halle, 1789 ) and a translation of the Clouds of Aristophanes ( Berlin, 1811 ).

* The Clouds of Aristophanes ( 1856 )

In Aristophanes ' comedy The Clouds ( 423 BC ), when the character Socrates is quizzing his student on poetic meters, Strepsiades declares that he knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives the finger.

* the Clouds of Aristophanes ( 1754 )

His editions of the classics include several of the plays of Euripides ; the Clouds of Aristophanes ( 1799 ); Trinummus of Plautus ( 1800 ); Poëtica of Aristotle ( 1802 ); Orphica ( 1805 ); the Homeric Hymns ( 1806 ); and the Lexicon of Photius ( 1808 ).

In The Clouds of Aristophanes, the views of Diogenes are transferred to Socrates.

After finishing his studies, he translated some of the Greek tragic poets, and the Clouds of Aristophanes.

* Aristophanes, The Clouds