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Aristophanes
[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]
noun
- 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Aristophanes
/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəˌniːz /
noun
- Aristophanes?448 bc?380 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?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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- A·ris·to·phan·ic [uh, -ris-t, uh, -, fan, -ik], adjective
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I turn to the ancient Greek comic author, Aristophanes, speaking at what must have seemed a similar time.
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In like manner, Aristophanes could afford to trifle with the asseverations of his own Athenian audiences.
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Aristophanes has furnished jests for Rabelais, hints to Swift, and humor for Molière.
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Aristophanes, too, in the Birds talks of men as (Greek text omitted), figures kneaded of clay.
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Aristophanes seems, indeed, to have been regarded by his contemporaries as a man of noble character.
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Aristophanes gave him more pleasure than Sophocles, Plautus than Horace, whose merit he thought over-praised.
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