Aristophanes
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Entertainment, Entertainers, Poetry, Poets, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek playwright{$I[g]Greece;Aristophanes} The highly entertaining plays of Aristophanes provide the only extant examples of Old Comedy. His writings reveal much about not only dramaturgy in late fifth century b.c.e. Athens but also the social, political, and economic conditions of the time.
Early Life
The son of Philippos, who may have been a landowner in Aegina, Greece, Aristophanes (ar-uh-STAHF-uh-neez) was born in Athens about 450 b.c.e. Though little is known about his early life, he was clearly well educated, for his plays quote...
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