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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Aristophanes
Born: 446 BC
Died: 386 BC (aged 60)
Bio: Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete.
Known for:
- Lysistrata
- The Frogs
- The Clouds
- The Birds
- The Acharnians
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