![]() ![]() 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.Īristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. Īlso 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. 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. ![]() Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Īristophanes ( / ˌ ær ɪ ˈ s t ɒ f ə n iː z/ Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced c. Although many artists' renderings of Aristophanes portray him with flowing curly hair, several jests in his plays indicate that he may have been prematurely bald. ![]()
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