Democracy in Athens

Question 1

Aristophanes wasps

Answer 1

‘Of all dogs alive by far the worst man for solitary eating, he sailed right around the mortar and hes eaten all the rind for himself.’

Question 2

Aristophanes Wasps

Answer 2

‘I think the same thing has happened to him that happened to thucydides when he was on trial, he suddenly got paralysed at the jaws.’

Question 3

Aristophanes wasps

Answer 3

‘he’s just a stay at home. he stays right there and whatever anyone brings to the house,he demands a share of it, and bites if he doesnt get one.’

Question 4

aristophanes knights

Answer 4

‘nothing but bad stock, oh, congratulations! what good luck! What advantage youlve got for political life’

Question 5

Aristophanes Knights

Answer 5

‘Discover one of them whos a simple fellow minding his own buisness, you bring him home from the Chersonese, take him around the waist with slanders, hook his leg, then twist back his shoulder and plant your foot on him.’