The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own.
He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyo.
His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene.
This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes .
The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own