and Greek. Aristophanes was censored down to the 1960s in England. Christian audiences find offensive the explicit sexual and political language of Aristophanes. Each time Aristophanes comes to the stage, the censor is kept busy.
In the case of the Getty presentation, the censorship and misinterpretation were minimal if not insignificant. Aristophanes attacked the merchants of weapons. We heard nothing about those merchants in the English translation.
from The Hellenic News of America: Aristophanes speaking truth to power at the Getty Villa
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