Complete Plays of Aristophanes Aristophanes Author
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Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 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 the... Read more
Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 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 they are used to define the genre.THE ELEVEN COMEDIESForewordTHE KNIGHTSTHE ACHARNIANSPEACELYSISTRATATHE CLOUDSTHE WASPSTHE BIRDSTHE FROGSTHE THESMOPHORIAZUSAETHE ECCLESIAZUSAEPLUTUS Less
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  • Unforgotten Classics
  • July 16, 2013
  • 2940148582717
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually co...
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