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Aristophane est un poète comique grec du Ve siècle av. J.-C., né dans le dème de Cydathénéon vers 445 av. J.-C. et mort entre 385 et 375 av. J.-C.. Son œuvre à elle seule représente ce qui nous reste de l'Ancienne Comédie, et coïncide avec les années glorieuses d'Athènes sous l'administration de Périclès et la longue et sombre période de la Guerre du Péloponnèse. Au tournant du Ve et du IVe siècle, alors qu'Athènes voit éclore des modes de pensée nouveaux dans tous les domaines, et que les mœurs politiques et sociales se transforment ou se dégradent, Aristophane cloue au pilori par de grands éclats de rire les politiciens démagogues et va-t-en-guerre, les citoyens en proie à une « judicardite » aiguë, cette pernicieuse manie des procès, ou les maîtres d'incivisme et de décadence. Wikipedia

✵ 448 av. J.-C. – 386 av. J.-C.

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“Socrate. Tiens-tu quelque chose?
Strepsiade. Non, par Zeus, non certes.
Socrate. Rien du tout?
Strepsiade. Rien… que ma verge dans ma main droite.”

Nuées

“Brékékékex, coax, coax!”

Aristophane Les Grenouilles

Les Grenouilles

“TOURNEBOULE. - Mais Zeus, à votre compte, dis, au nom… de la Terre, l'Olympien, il n'est pas dieu?
SOCRATE. - Qui ça, Zeus? Trêve de balivernes! Il n'existe même pas, Zeus.
TOURNEBOULE. - Qu'est-ce que tu dis? Alors, qui c'est qui pleut? Explique-moi un peu ça pour commencer!”

Aristophane Les Nuées

Les Nuées

“Messieurs les Spectateurs, Ah! ne nourrissez point d'aigreur à mon endroit, si, pauvre besacier, je me mêle pourtant devant les Athéniens d'opiner sur les affaires d'État, dans cette farce que je trousse : s'il s'agit de parler juste, elle a son mot à dire elle aussi, la farce! mes propos seront sévères, mais justes.”

Aristophane Les Acharniens

Δικαιόπολις.
Mή μοι φθονήσητ᾽ ἄνδρες οἱ θεώμενοι,
εἰ πτωχὸς ὢν ἔπειτ᾽ ἐν Ἀθηναίοις λέγειν
μέλλω περὶ τῆς πόλεως, τρυγῳδίαν ποιῶν.
τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον οἶδε καὶ τρυγῳδία.
ἐγὼ δὲ λέξω δεινὰ μὲν δίκαια δέ.
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Justinet (Dicaiopolis).
Les Acharniens

“Oh! là! là! bon dieu de sort! ces nuits, ce que c'est long! Ça n'en finit pas! Il ne fera donc jamais jour! Il y a pourtant bel âge que j'ai entendu le coq! Et mes valets qui ronflent! Ah! dans le temps on n'aurait pas vu ça!”

Aristophane Les Nuées

Les Nuées

“Le destin a tôt fait de changer de victime, et son règne, de prendre une face nouvelle!”

Aristophane Les Thesmophories

Les Thesmophories

“Refrain du Chœur des grenouilles du Styx.”

Aristophane Les Grenouilles

Brékékékex, coax, coax !
βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ
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Les Grenouilles

Aristophane: Citations en anglais

“Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing.”

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Aristophanés The Wasps

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Wasps+80 <br class="br">Wasps, line 80 <br class="br">Wasps (422 BC)

“Chorus: Under every stone lurks a politician.”

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Aristophanés Les Thesmophories

tr. in Bartlett 1968, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor%3A%22John+Bartlett%22+date%3A1968-1968+%22Under+every+stone+lurks+a+politician%22 or Archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/familiarquotatio017007mbp/familiarquotatio017007mbp_djvu.txt <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae, line 529-530 <br class="br">A play on the Greek proverb "Under every stone lurks a scorpion". In context, "orator" was a synonym for "politician". <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC)

“Dicaeopolis: Well, how are things at Megara?
Megarian: We are crying with hunger at our firesides.
Dicaeopolis: The fireside is jolly enough with a piper. But what else is doing at Megara, eh?
Megarian: What else? When I left for the market, the authorities were taking steps to let us die in the quickest manner.
Dicaeopolis: That is the best way to get you out of all your troubles.
Megarian: True.
Dicaeopolis: What other news of Megara? What is wheat selling at?
Megarian: With us it is valued as highly as the very gods in heaven!”

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Aristophanés Les Acharniens

tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Ach.+751 <br class="br">Acharnians, line 751-759 <br class="br">Acharnians (425 BC)

“[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell:”

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Aristophanés Lysistrata

tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014 <br class="br">Lysistrata, line 1038-1039 <br class="br">Lysistrata (411 BC)

“Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”

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Aristophanés Les Thesmophories

tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278 http://books.google.com/books?id=6fxxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22one+must+not+try+to+trick+misfortune,+but+resign+oneself+to+it+with+good+grace%22 <br class="br">tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Thes.+198 <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae, line 198-199 <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC)

“Chremylus: And what good thing can [Poverty] give us, unless it be burns in the bath, and swarms of brats and old women who cry with hunger, and clouds uncountable of lice, gnats and flies, which hover about the wretch's head, trouble him, awake him and say, “You will be hungry, but get up!” […]
Poverty: It's not my life that you describe; you are attacking the existence beggars lead. […] The beggar, whom you have depicted to us, never possesses anything. The poor man lives thriftily and attentive to his work; he has not got too much, but he does not lack what he really needs. […] But what you don't know is this, that men with me are worth more, both in mind and body, than with [Wealth]. With him they are gouty, big-bellied, heavy of limb and scandalously stout; with me they are thin, wasp-waisted, and terrible to the foe. […] As for behavior, I will prove to you that modesty dwells with me and insolence with [Wealth]. […] Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. […]
Chremylus: Then tell me this, why does all mankind flee from you?
Poverty: Because I make them better. Children do the very same; they flee from the wise counsels of their fathers. So difficult is it to see one's true interest.”

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Aristophanés Plutus

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+535 <br class="br">Plutus, line 535-539 & 548 & 552-554 & 558-561 & 563-564 & 567-570 & 575-578 <br class="br">Plutus (388 BC)

“Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.”

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Aristophanés Les Nuées

tr. in Lippmann 1929, p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA1 and 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA4 <br class="br">Clouds, line 828 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)

“Man is a truly cunning creature.”

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Aristophanés The Birds

(abridged tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+451) <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you”

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Aristophanés The Wasps

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Wasps+704 <br class="br">Wasps (422 BC)

“Phobokleon: Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”

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Aristophanés The Wasps

embellished tr. Parker 1962, p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=EdpxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Hunger+knows+no+friend+but+its+feeder%22 <br class="br">Wasps, line 704 <br class="br">Wasps (422 BC)

“Chorus: [We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.”

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Aristophanés Les Thesmophories

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Thes.+529 <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC)

“Chorus [of Birds]: Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”

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Aristophanés The Birds

tr. in Bartlett 1968, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor%3A%22John+Bartlett%22+date%3A1968-1968+%22Full+of+wiles%2C+full+of+guile%2C+at+all+times%2C+in+all+ways%2C+are+the+children+of+Men%22 or Archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/familiarquotatio017007mbp/familiarquotatio017007mbp_djvu.txt <br class="br">Birds, line 451-452 <br class="br">Compare the earlier-written but later-known: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked", Jeremiah, 17:9 KJV Bible http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+17:9&version=9. <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!”

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Aristophanés Plutus

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+362 <br class="br">Plutus, line 362-363 <br class="br">Plutus (388 BC)

“Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god?
Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus.”

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Aristophanés Les Nuées

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+366 <br class="br">Clouds, line 366-367 (our emphasis on 367) <br class="br">The Greek-mythology equivalent of "There is no God." <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)

“Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.”

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Aristophanés Plutus

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+230 <br class="br">Plutus, line 230 <br class="br">Plutus (388 BC)

“Just Cause: [Learn] not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy.”

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Aristophanés Les Nuées

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+998 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)

“[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
[Choir of] Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.”

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Aristophanés Lysistrata

tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014 <br class="br">Lysistrata, line 1014-1017 <br class="br">Lysistrata (411 BC)

“Strepsiades: ‘Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.”

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Aristophanés Les Nuées

tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 350 http://books.google.com/books?id=9vpxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Tis+the+Whirlwind%2C+that+has+driven+out+Jupiter+and+is+King+now%22 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)

“Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.”

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Aristophanés Les Nuées

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+828 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)

“Chorus [leader]: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!”

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Aristophanés The Birds

heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bk8JAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Sickly%2C+calamitous+creatures+of+clay%22 <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Leader of the Chorus: Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.”

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Aristophanés The Birds

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+685 <br class="br">Birds, line 685-687 <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Leader of the Chorus: Let's see. What shall our city be called? […]
Euelpides: Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty regions in which we dwell — in short, some well-known name.
Pisthetaerus: Do you like Nephelococcygia?”

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Aristophanés The Birds

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+812 <br class="br">Birds, line 812 & 817-819 (our emphasis on 819) <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.”

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Aristophanés Les Grenouilles

tr. Dillon 1995, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Frogs+1058 <br class="br">Frogs, line 1058-1059 <br class="br">Frogs (405 BC)

“[Choir of] Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.”

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Aristophanés Lysistrata

tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+649 <br class="br">Lysistrata, line 649-651 <br class="br">Lysistrata (411 BC)

“Chorus [leader]: Come now, ye men, in nature darkling, like to the race of leaves, of little might, figures of clay, shadowy feeble tribes, wingless creatures of a day, miserable mortals, dream-like men.”

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Aristophanés The Birds

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, p. 338 http://books.google.com/books?id=Cm4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA338 <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)

“Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; […] I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. […]
Blepyrus: But who will till the soil?
Praxagora: The slaves.”

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tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Eccl.+590 <br class="br">Ecclesiazusae, line 590-591 & 597-598 & 651 <br class="br">Ecclesiazusae (392 BC)

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