The importance of peace was a recurring theme in Aristophanic comedy; it is mentioned in Acharnians (425BC) and Peace (421BC), although they advised harmony throughout Greece in addition to peace in Athens. ... There is the implication that these flawed leaders are preferable to the present politicians, such as Cleophon and Cleigenes who are taunted with accusations of dishonesty - "he makes up detergents that won't even lather / For he mixes in ashes to make them go farther" and, more damningly, not being of pure Athenian birth - "when once translated from the Thracian". ... In this way,...

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