Aspasia is certainly clever, I will give her that. She amassed a level of power as a woman in Athens that many men would envy.
I have never fully appreciated Sokrates and his philosophy, either, but he is as good a man and a friend as there is - and braver than he is given credit for. And I imagine Aristophanes would like nothing better than to know that his plays survived while his rivals' did not. Did any of the tragedies make it a thousand years, though? I got drunk at a symposium with Euripedes and Sophokles once.