The library of Aristophanes

1. Homer 3 authority 3 citations

   Birds

   2 citations

   Clouds

   1 citation

   First of all, Victory flies with golden wings, Eros is undoubtedly winged too, and Iris is compared by Homer to a timorous dove.

2. Aeschylus 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations

   Clouds

   1 citation

   Birds

   1 citation

   and then he immediately said, Shall I consider Aeschylus the first among the poets, full of empty sound, unpolished, bombastic, using rugged words?

3. Euripides 1 endorsed 1 citation

   Clouds

   1 citation

   And he immediately sang a passage of Euripides, how a brother, O averter of ill!

4. Knights Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation

   Clouds

   1 citation

   Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.

5. Odyssey Homer 1 extended 1 citation

   Birds

   1 citation

   He offered a little victim, a camel, slit his throat and, following the example of Odysseus, stepped one pace backwards.

6. Pindar 1 authority 1 citation

   Birds

   1 citation

   but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind.

7. Sophocles 1 refuted 1 citation

   Birds

   1 citation

   This is how Sophocles outrages me in his tragedies.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Clouds

Maricas · The Shearing of the Ram · law of the Old and New day · maxims of Pandeletus · the poem of the drunken old woman devoured by a whale · the reputation of Thales as a wise natural philosopher · the teaching and reputation of Prodicus · verses on Hyperbolus

Birds

Aesop's fables ¶ · Ancient law of the storks on filial support · Counter-oracle dictated to Pisthetaerus · Decree of Teleas · Decree on weights, measures, and decrees of the Olophyxians · Dithyrambs and parthenia worthy of Simonides · Oracle concerning Nephelococcygia · law of inheritance attributed to Solon

6 works in the library quote Aristophanes — 6 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Aristophanes 5 citations · Knights 1 citation

Plato 2 citations · Aristophanes 1 citation · Clement of Alexandria 1 citation · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Aristophanes is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Clouds Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation

   clouds

   The poet cites his own earlier comedy the Knights as the authoritative original text that rivals have imitated and debased.

   Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

   book 4 2 passages anchored here

   Aristophanes is named directly and his mocking verses are quoted approvingly to support the surrounding argument.

   Come, men of dim life, like the race of leaves, of little strength, things moulded of wax, shadowy tribes, feeble, wingless, creatures of a day.

3. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 authority 1 citation

   oration 52

   The speaker invokes Aristophanes' remark as confirming testimony for Sophocles' sweetness of style.

   "But he, in turn, licked round the mouth of Sophocles, the honey-anointed, as of a little jar.

4. Apology Plato 1 refuted 1 citation

   apology

   Aristophanes's comedy is explicitly named as a work the Athenians witnessed, and Socrates denies the portrait it gave of him.

   For you yourselves saw these things in Aristophanes’ comedy, a Socrates being carried about there, proclaiming that he was treading on air and uttering a vast deal of other nonsense, about which I know nothing, either much or little.

5. Symposium Plato 1 neutral 1 citation

   symposium

   Alcibiades explicitly attributes the marsh-goose phrase to Aristophanes before using it.

   and I noticed, first, how far he outdid Laches in collectedness, and next I felt—to use a phrase of yours, Aristophanes—how there he stepped along, as his wont is in our streets, strutting like a proud marsh-goose, with ever a side-long glance, turning a calm sidelong look on friend and foe alike, and convincing anyone even from afar that whoever cares to touch this person will find he can put up …

6. On the Happy Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation

   on the happy life

   The passage names Aristophanes directly as a source of comic material against Socrates, reported as historical fact rather than argued for or against.

   I myself once furnished Aristophanes with matter for his jests;