Now think here again back to Aristophanes's myth.

这里可以与阿里斯托芬的神话对比。

Again the image is almost straight out Aristophanes's speech.

这个意向简直直接取自阿里斯托芬。

It sounds like he might have borrowed it from Aristophanes's speech, about two becoming one.

他的两者结合为一体的意象似乎是从阿里斯托芬那里借来的。

Aristophanes is suffering the effects of a hangover from the party the previous night.

阿里斯托芬还没缓过来他前一天晚上也喝得烂醉。

That distinction is going to come under a lot of pressure when we get to the fourth speaker, Aristophanes.

这种区分到了第四个发言者那儿将会受到很多反诘。

So, good news and bad news, Aristophanes.

所以，好消息和坏消息，阿里斯托芬。

Aristophanes struck back two years later with a play called The Knights.

两年后，阿里斯托芬用一部名为《骑士》的戏剧进行了反击。

Yes, I did what writers have done since Aristophanes.

是 从阿里斯托芬时代起就是想象力在创作。

Aristophanes’ comedies celebrated ordinary people and attacked the powerful.

阿里斯托芬的喜剧颂扬普通人，攻击权贵。

Aristophanes, Aristophanes: Four Comedies, ed. William Arrowsmith, trans. Richmond Lattimore (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969).

1. 阿里斯托芬，阿里斯托芬：四部喜剧，编。威廉·阿罗史密斯，反式。 Richmond Lattimore（安娜堡：密歇根大学出版社，1969 年）。