And tell me this: of all the roads you know, / Which is the quickest way to get to Hades? / I want one not too warm, nor yet too cold. —Frogs, 120 Aristophanes
Aristophanes c.448 B.C. –c.388 B.C. , Greek playwright, Athenian comic poet, greatest of the ancient writers of comedy . His plays, the only full extant samples of the Greek Old Comedy, mix political, social, and literary satire.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics. ) Pronunciation: The American Heritage®
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The Frogs
Dionysus descends into the underworld, where he judges a contest between Euripides and Æschylus. From the Harvard Classics
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