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Aristophanes
[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]
noun
- 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Aristophanes
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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
Aristophanes
- An ancient Greek dramatist, the author of such comedies as The Clouds and Lysistrata.
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Example Sentences
Philosophers recognized drama’s power too: Although Plato critiqued theater’s emotional pull, he admitted that “the comedy of Aristophanes†had deeply influenced Socrates’ public image.
“Playwrights like Aristophanes were there to make fun of the rulers but also to make our hearts bleed about the tragedy of humankind,†Ms. Evangelatos said.
A librarian in Alexandria, Egypt, Aristophanes of Byzantium, thought the system could stand improving.
“The Hang†certainly gets its digs at Aristophanes.
Instead he decided his future lay as a serious stage actor and he was offered a leading role in a production of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata in 1946.
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