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Aristophanes
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC) was a Greek comic poet.
The place and even the exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was probably educated in Athens. He is famous for writing comedies such as The Birds for the two Athenian festivals: the Dionysia and the Lenea. He wrote at least 30 plays, 11 of which still survive, and his plays are the only surviving examples of Greek Old Comedy. Many of his plays were political, and often satirized the well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War. He is known to have been prosecuted for Athenian law's equivalent of libel more than once. A famous comedy, The Frogs, was given the unprecedented honor of a second performance.
He appears in Plato's Symposium, giving a humorous mythical account of the origin of Love. The Clouds pokes fun at famous figures, notably Socrates, and may have contributed to the common misconception of the philosopher as a Sophist. Lysistrata was written during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and presents a pacifist theme in a comical manner: the women of the two states deprive their husbands of sex until they stop fighting. This play was later illustrated at length by Pablo Picasso.
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1 Surviving Plays
2 Dated Non-Surviving Plays
3 Undated Non-Surviving Plays
4 External links
Surviving Plays
Dated Non-Surviving Plays
Undated Non-Surviving Plays
- Aiolosikon (first version)
- Anagyros
- Broilers
- Daidalos
- Danaids
- Dionysos Shipwrecked
- Centaur
- Niobos
- Heroes
- Islands
- Lemnian Women'
- Old Age
- Peace (second version)
- Phoenician Women
- Poetry
- Polyidos
- Seasons
- Storks
- Telemessians
- Triphales
- Thesmophoriazousae ("The Festival Women", second version)
- Women Encamping
See also: Agathon, Greek literature
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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds by Thomas G. West
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds, the Birds, Lysistrata, the Frogs by Aristophanes,
Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Lysistrata & Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
Aristophanes: Clouds, Wasps, Peace (Loeb Classical Library , No 488) by Aristophanes
The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts by C. D. C. Reeve
Aristophanes' Clouds Translated With Notes and Introduction by Jeffery Henderson
Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Translated With Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library) by Aristophanes
Aristophanes, 1 : The Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Penn Greek Drama Series) by Aristophanes,
Aristophanes' Birds by Jeffrey Henderson
The Birds by Aristophanes
Aristophanes: Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth (Loeb Classical Library, No. 180) by Aristophanes
Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Aristophanes
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