Aristophanes

American  

[ar-uh-stof-uh-neez] / ˌær əˈstɒf əˌniz /

noun

1. 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.

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Aristophanes British  

/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəˌniːz /

noun

1. ?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 Cultural  

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

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Other Word Forms

• Aristophanic
  adjective

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes of Byzantium is known, therefore, as the father of punctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Aristophanes, an accomplished Athenian playwright, won several dramatic competitions of his day.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The show, based on the Aristophanes comedy, originally had been done 20 years earlier in the Yale University swimming pool.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Aristophanes is a reference to my previous column, where I mentioned that classics scholars still debate what certain lines in the Greek’s plays mean.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021

In his play The Frogs, the conservative Aristophanes makes repeated sneering references to Euripides’ partiality for books.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro