Aristophanes
Sign in to saveAristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
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Aristophanes was an ancient Athenian playwright who wrote comic dramas, of which eleven complete plays survive today and are considered the finest examples of Old Comedy. His works were performed at major Athenian religious festivals and several won top prizes, making him one of the most important figures in the history of comedy.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 450 B.C.
- Died
- ca. 385 B.C.
- Works
- 424
Top works
- Ornithes
- Vatrachoi tou Aristophanē
- Hippeis tou Aristophanē
- Thesmophoriazousai
- Acharnēs
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Film & TV
Writing · Athens, Greece
Aristophanes Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with…
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13,726
- Total plays
- 90,924
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Works in European collections
21 objects attributed to Aristophanes, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
23 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Plato's ''Symposion''
- Use of language
- Aristophanes and Old Comedy
- Dramatic structure of Aristophanes's plots
- Parabasis
- Influence and legacy
- Literature
- Radio shows
- Music
- Greek Language
- Translation of Aristophanes
- Works
- Surviving plays
- Datable non-surviving (lost) plays
- Undated non-surviving (lost) plays
- Attributed (doubtful, possibly by Archippus)
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes wrote plays that often dealt with real-life figures, including Euripides and Alcibiades, and contemporary events, such as the Peloponnesian War. He has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His plays are characterized by preposterous premises, explicit language, wordplays, and political satire. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes's play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.
