“Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.”

— Aristophanés , The Clouds

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+828
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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

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