Aristophanes (/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz /; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. [4] .

2025年1月24日 · Aristophanes, the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. He is thought to have written about 40 plays in all, including Clouds, Frogs, and Women at the Thesmophoria. Learn more about his life and works in this article.

2013年3月13日 · Aristophanes (c. 460 - c. 380 BCE) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style.

The surviving plays of Aristophanes, in chronological order spanning a period from 425 to 388 BCE, are: “The Acharnians” , “The Knights” , “The Clouds” , “The Wasps” , “Peace” , “The Birds” , “Lysistrata” , “Thesmophoriazusae” , “The Frogs” , “Ecclesiazusae” and “Plutus (Wealth)” .

2023年9月29日 · Aristophanes wrote over forty plays, of which only eleven have survived in their entirety, using them as a medium to satirize the political and social issues of his time.

2015年10月27日 · Aristophanes was writing during a period of time when Athens was engaged in the Peloponnesian War, and some of his plays addressed the issues of this war directly. For example, The Knights, which won first place at the Lenaia festival in 424 BC, is a caricature of Cleon, a prominent Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War.

Aristophanes, (born c. 450—died c. 388 bc), Greek playwright. An Athenian, he began his career as a comic dramatist in 427. He wrote approximately 40 plays, of which 11 survive, including The Clouds (423), The Wasps (422), The Birds (414), Lysistrata (411), and The Frogs (405).

2024年4月14日 · Aristophanes was a playwright who lived in Athens during the 5th century BCE. He produced some of the only remaining extant Greek comedies, and his work helped shape the sub-genres of Old and Middle Comedy. His plays often included crude humor, criticisms of public figures, and commentary on Athenian society.

Pages in category "Plays by Aristophanes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates;