biography
pronunciation:
[aristofaneez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.448–c.388 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek playwright. He is said to have written 54 plays, but only 11 are extant. His writings fall into three periods. To the first period, ending in 425 BC, belong The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, and The Wasps, the poet's four masterpieces, named from their respective choruses, and Peace, in all of which full rein is given to political satire. To the second, ending in 406 BC, belong The Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Frogs. To the third, ending c.388 BC, belong The Ecclesiazusae and The Plutus, comedies in which the role of the chorus, which was the distinctive characteristic of the Old Comedy, and political allusions disappear. |
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