Now, where is the gentle goddess Peace? . . . Laconians, approach; and you, Athenians, on my other side. Now hearken all! I am but a woman; but I have good common sense; Nature has endowed me with discriminating judgment, which I have yet further developed, thanks to the wise teachings of my father and the elders of the city. First I must bring a reproach against you that applies equally to both sides. At Olympia, and Thermopylae, and Delphi, and a score of other places too numerous to mention, you celebrate before the same altars ceremonies common to all Hellenes; yet you go cutting each other’s throats, and sacking Hellenic cities, when all the while the barbarian yonder is threatening you! Use the excerpt to answer the question. This excerpt comes from which individual’s creative works?
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Sophocles’s tragedies
The above excerpt is from ancient Greek text called The Eleven Comedies by Aristophanes. Aristophanes was a comedic playwright from the ancient city of Athens. He wrote forty plays but only eleven have survived in their entirety. They are the only surviving knowledge about Aristophanes and his life.
