#he was after Euripides like Kendrick was (still is?) after Drake. On God.
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Aristophanes is my hater goal
#he dunked on Euripides he dunked on Philoxenus he dunked on Cleon he dunked on Cratinus#man woke up and chose hatred every single day of his life. Committed to the fucking bit.#he was after Euripides like Kendrick was (still is?) after Drake. On God.#Yes Aristophanes did publish multiple plays implying Euripides was what was wrong about Athens while Euripides was alive AND AFTER HE DIED#LIKE MONTHS AFTER EURIPIDES DIED Aristophanes wrote a play in which Ghost Euripides gets dragged as Thr Worst Thing To Happen To Theatre#And Athens by the Ghost of the most important author of tregedy in all Greece#in a verse battle#he calls Euripides a fraud and a danger and a terrible teacher for the city#Imagine you're like Euripides's son and your dad died only a few months ago and you're sad and you go to the theatre#because it's the theatre Festival and it's super important in Athens. Also there's a war going on so you need something to cheer you up.#It's the day of the comedies. Maybe you'll laugh a little maybe a show will put you in a good mood.#the show starts#Your father is being called a deranged fraud a bitchass talentless soulless writer who never did one good thing in his entire life.#Everybody claps. It wins the first prize.#There's actually a bit where your dad is in hell and they could have brought him back from the dead#but he is too much of a fucking piece of shit so they leave him in hell after being humiliated in a verse battle with Greek Shakespeare#and everybody he is so happy that he is not the one that gets to live again but Greek Shakespeare is#Jesus Christ that's brutal#aristophanes#the frogs#euripides#greek literature#ancient greece#ancient greek
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