Aristophanes: the time of political satire [Seven days of history]
Aristophanes is an ancient Greek comedian. The ancients called Aristophanes simply «the comedian», just as Homer was known as the «poet». Aristophanes was considered the «father of comedy» already in ancient times. The epigram attributed to Plato says: «the muses made themselves a refuge in it». Aristophanes' witticisms often seemed rude and indecent to readers of the New Age, his expressions are too naked and unclean for educated people with their sense of grace, not bribed by the beauty of language, to find artistic pleasure in them. This rudeness did not belong to Aristophanes personally, but to the entire era of that time, which was accustomed to calling things by their real name.