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Aristophanes
[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]
noun
- 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Aristophanes
/ ˌæɪˈɒəˌԾː /
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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- ··ٴ·· [uh, -ris-t, uh, -, fan, -ik], adjective
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“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.
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A librarian in Alexandria, Egypt, Aristophanes of Byzantium, thought the system could stand improving.
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“The Hang” certainly gets its digs at Aristophanes.
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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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The show, based on the Aristophanes comedy, originally had been done 20 years earlier in the Yale University swimming pool.
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