Author
Aristophanes
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Their life
Aristophanes was a comic playwright from Athens, active around 446 to 386 BC. He wrote forty plays, and eleven survive in nearly complete form. Most of these belong to Old Comedy, a genre of comic drama whose surviving examples are regarded as its most valuable. His plays were staged at Athens' religious festivals, chiefly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several took first prize in their competitions.
He is known as the "Father of Comedy" and the "Prince of Ancient Comedy." His works often portr
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