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Aristophanes


Born
Athens, Greece
Genre
Theatre, Humor and Comedy


Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contr ...more

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Lysistrata
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Clouds
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The Frogs
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Four Plays: The Clouds/The ...
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Birds
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The Ecclesiazusae
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The Frogs and Other Plays
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Wasps
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“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes
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“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes
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“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
― Aristophanes
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