Aristophanes

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The plays of Aristophanes contained scathing attacks on prominent Athenian personalities, as well as on the state of Athens itself, and were therefore controversial and subjected to censorship. He was a contemporary and, perhaps, a friend of Socrates, although his play The Clouds ridiculed Socrates and may have contributed to the philosopher’s downfall. His plays, invariably witty, contain an odd combination of political satire, scatology, and sexual humor. In the Lysistrata, for example, written during war with Sparta, the women of Athens agree...

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• Lysistrata (Character Profiles)
• Lysistrata (Literary Places)
• Lysistrata (Magill Book Reviews)
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