Aristophanes

[ar-uh-stof-uh-neez]

noun

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

Related formsA·ris·to·phan·ic

[uh-ris-tuh-fan-ik] /əˌrɪs təˈfæn ɪk/, adjective

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Contemporary Examples of aristophanes

I turn to the ancient Greek comic author, Aristophanes, speaking at what must have seemed a similar time.
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Charles Fried
August 6, 2011

Historical Examples of aristophanes

And first Aristophanes drops, and then, as the day is dawning, Agathon.
Symposium
Plato
In the caricature of Aristophanes there is also a witness to the common sentiment.
Phaedo
Plato
I will do as you prescribe, said Aristophanes, and now get on.
Symposium
Plato
And first of all Aristophanes dropped off, then, when the day was already dawning, Agathon.
Symposium
Plato
Here we have the old father, a heart of oak, like the old Acharnian in Aristophanes.
Cyropaedia
Xenophon

British Dictionary definitions for aristophanes

Aristophanes

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.