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noun - an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)
ARISTOPHANES - Aristophanes (; Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pro noun ced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (La...
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| In 423 B.C. Cratinus took the festival prize with the play "The Bottle", beating this author of "The Clouds" |
| In his play "Lysistrata", the women of Athens refuse to sleep with their men until peace is declared |
| This ancient Greek playwright is the "Father of Comedy" |
| "The Father of Comedy" & "Prince of Ancient Comedy" |
| Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including "Clouds" & "Frogs", survive intact |
| Women force their husbands to stop warring in this man's 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata" |
| "Birds" brain who's known as the father of comedy |
| "Brekekekex co-ax, co-ax" is a line from his 405 B.C. hit play "The Frogs" |
| This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "can't live with them, or without them!" |
| "Plutus" is the latest extant play by this master of ancient Greek comedy who gave us "The Birds" |
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Aristophanes (; Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty 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 Comedy, and are used to define it.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 contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher. * Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by the demagogue Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights, the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all." (κωμῳδοδιδασκαλίαν εἶναι χαλεπώτατον ἔργον ἁπάντων) |