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Aristophanes

[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]

noun

  1. 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.


Aristophanes

/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəˌniːz /

noun

  1. 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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Aristophanes

  1. An ancient Greek dramatist, the author of such comedies as The Clouds and Lysistrata.


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  • A·ris·to·phan·ic [uh, -ris-t, uh, -, fan, -ik], adjective
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Example Sentences

The phrase is taken from Plato’s groundbreaking philosophical text Symposium, and specifically from a passage delivered by Plato’s rendering of the playwright Aristophanes.

From Time

I turn to the ancient Greek comic author, Aristophanes, speaking at what must have seemed a similar time.

In like manner, Aristophanes could afford to trifle with the asseverations of his own Athenian audiences.

Aristophanes has furnished jests for Rabelais, hints to Swift, and humor for Molière.

Aristophanes, too, in the Birds talks of men as (Greek text omitted), figures kneaded of clay.

Aristophanes seems, indeed, to have been regarded by his contemporaries as a man of noble character.

Aristophanes gave him more pleasure than Sophocles, Plautus than Horace, whose merit he thought over-praised.

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