Aristophanes

[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]

/ ˌær əˈstɒf əˌniz /

noun

448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.

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I turn to the ancient Greek comic author, Aristophanes, speaking at what must have seemed a similar time.
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Somewhat of the same character is found in the following from Aristophanes.
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Aristophanes was a good judge of poetry, yet how ill he judged of Euripides!
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Hence they are mentioned as different in Aristophanes (Pax, 457).
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We might, moreover, have pointed out the care of Aristophanes to maintain this mythological propriety.
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Aristophanes informs us that the egg out of which Love was born, was produced by Night in the bosom of Erebus.
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British Dictionary definitions for aristophanes

Aristophanes

/ (ˌærɪˈstɒfəˌniːz) /

noun

?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata

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Aristophanes

[ (ar-i-stof-uh-neez) ]

An ancient Greek dramatist, the author of such comedies as The Clouds and Lysistrata.

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