Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; , ; ), son of Philippus and Zenodora, of the deme Kydathenaion (), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play ''The Clouds'' as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.
Aristophanes' second play, ''The Babylonians'' (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian ''polis''. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially ''The Knights'', the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all." Provided by Wikipedia
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Cambridge, Mass. :; London, Harvard University,; Heinemann 1938
Cambridge, Mass. :; London, Harvard University,; Heinemann 1938
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[Place of publication not identified] : [Scribe Publishing], 2017
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Camb.[Eng.], 1913
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[Philadelphia : Dando printing and publishing co., 1886
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Braunschweig : F.Vieweg, 1821
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Boston : Ginn, 1888
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Hildesheim : Georg Olms, 1966; 1901
[Reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe Cambridge 1901].
Hildesheim : Georg Olms, 1966; 1901
[Reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe Cambridge 1901].
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Middlesex, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1978
Middlesex, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1978
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Harvard University Press, 1924
Harvard University Press, 1924
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London : New York : Dent; Dutton 1922
London : New York : Dent; Dutton 1922
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London : G. Bell 1875
The Greek text revised, with a translation into corresponding metre and original notes /
London : G. Bell 1875
The Greek text revised, with a translation into corresponding metre and original notes /
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Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998
Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998
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London : Bell, 1902
London : Bell, 1902
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