Aristophanes

Aristophanes (446-388)

Aristophanes (, ca. 446 ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty 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 in fact used to define the genre.

Aristophanes's Books:

[Lysistrata | Peace | The Acharnians | The Birds | The Clouds | The Frogs | Lysistra The Birds Clouds | Plutus | The Ecclesiazusae | The Knights | The Wasps]