I've read about it, it's not exactly true, although there is a possibility. And yes, if that's true, then it really does look a little weird.

It says a lot about the tenacity of ancient Greek opinion on these matters that they disrupted productions of his tragedies.

classical philosophy is not only still interesting and usable, it is the only viable path forward to say anything of any profound interest at all in a postmodern context

and there was much, much better political philosophy to come out of classical athens, stuff that actually made points