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Aristophanes

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Athens, Greece

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Theatre, Humor and Comedy

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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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Average rating: 3.84 · 107,741 ratings · 5,636 reviews · 2,062 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 53,372 ratings — published -423 — 722 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clouds 3.61 avg rating — 11,795 ratings — published -423 — 561 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frogs 3.78 avg rating — 9,325 ratings — published -405 — 565 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 6,832 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds 3.84 avg rating — 5,292 ratings — published -414 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers (Translator), R.H. Webb (Translator), Moses Hadas (Translator), Jack Lindsay (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published -388 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta 4.02 avg rating — 1,916 ratings — published -422 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) 3.66 avg rating — 2,074 ratings — published -392 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes, David Barrett (Translator), Alan Sommerstein (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 1,687 ratings — published -414 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wasps 3.62 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published -422 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes

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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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September 2019 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells, less than 32, 1903

108 votes, 38.0%

The Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton, 36 pages, first published in Scribner’s magazine in 1901.

51 votes, 18.0%

Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 48 pages, 1920

39 votes, 13.7%

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 50-100+- pages, -411

37 votes, 13.0%

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, 128 pages, 1955

27 votes, 9.5%

The Street of Crocodiles (Title Story) by Bruno Schulz, 10-20 pages, 1933

22 votes, 7.7%

284 total votes

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