1) Ancient greek boy name 2) Dramatist 3) Early comic writer 4) Greek boy name 5) He wrote The Frogs 6) Playwright 7) Satirist of 400 BC 8) The Birds playwright
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Aristophanes (z or z; Ἀριστοφάνης, pron; c. 446 BC – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old ...
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[vase painter] Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης; active between 430 and 400 BC in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. Three pieces signed by him are known. Two of them are bowls made by the potter Erginos, now in Berlin (Antikensammlung Berlin) and Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), the third is the frag...
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[aris-TOF-a-neez] Lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He wrote comedies for the theatre in Athens.
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the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. He is the only extant ... [19 related articles]
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(c. 445-c. 380 BC) Greek comedy dramatist. Of his 11 extant plays (of a total of over 40), the early comedies are remarkable for the violent satire with which he ridiculed the democratic war leaders. He also satirized...
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n] - an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)
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a Greek comic playwright of the 4th century BCE; his plays include a skewering of Socrates and the sophists in The Clouds, the gender power reversal play Lysistrata and the pro-peace play The Acharnians; Aristophanes was also a character in Plato`s The Symposium, where he suggested that people in love were two halves of the same body that had been ...
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noun an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)
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Greek comedy dramatist. Of his 11 extant plays (of a total of over 40), the early comedies are remarkable for the violent satire with which he ridiculed the democratic war leaders. He also satirized contemporary issues such as the new learning of Socrates in
The Clouds (423 BC) and the obsession with war, with the sex-strike ...
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Lived from about 450 to 385 BC. He wrote comedy plays comedies for the theatre in Athens.
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448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
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