Aristophanes
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Aristophanes was a comic playwright, who penned such works as The Wasps, The Frogs, and Lysistrata. In his The Clouds, Aristophanes writes about The Thoughtery, described as "a school for nerds and intellectual bums." Let's see where you fall on that spectrum. If you solve these puzzles, you'll by flying higher than ever.