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Aristophanes
n.
ancient Greek dramatist (known for his comedies "The Clouds" and "Lysistrata")
Aristophanes
Aristophanes ( or ; , ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the
deme Cydathenaeum, was a
comic playwright of
ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as
Old Comedy, and they are used to define the genre.
Aristophanes
Noun
1. an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)
(hypernym) dramatist, playwright
Aristophanes
n.
Aristophanes, Father of Comedy, (c.448-c.388 BC), Greek playwright and one of the greatest of the ancient writers of comedy
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (448?-380 BC) Athenian comedic playwright, of whose 44 plays 11 survive -- the only complete Greek comedies to reach modern times. Well-thought of as a person, he is mentioned in Plato's Symposium as among the noblest of men. His penetration, patriotism, sarcasm and satire, scorn of what is evil and base, imagination, command of language, and technical skill make him one of the great writers of comedies of all time. {SD}