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Aristophanes

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Athens, Greece

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Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. 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 contr ...more

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	Lysistrata 3.86 avg rating — 54,116 ratings — published -423 — 725 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clouds 3.61 avg rating — 11,975 ratings — published -423 — 561 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frogs 3.78 avg rating — 9,492 ratings — published -405 — 563 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 6,872 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds 3.83 avg rating — 5,406 ratings — published -414 — 467 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers (Translator), R.H. Webb (Translator), Moses Hadas (Translator), Jack Lindsay (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 2,995 ratings — published -388 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) 3.65 avg rating — 2,139 ratings — published -392 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta 4.02 avg rating — 1,939 ratings — published -422 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes, David Barrett (Translator), Alan Sommerstein (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published -414 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wasps 3.61 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published -422 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

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“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes

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“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
― Aristophanes

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July 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Medea by Euripides, 432, 59 pp

73 votes, 28.9%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp

68 votes, 26.9%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp

40 votes, 15.8%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 1859, 586 pp

36 votes, 14.2%

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, -424, 54 pp

29 votes, 11.5%

The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer, 1485, 323 pp

7 votes, 2.8%

253 total votes

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