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          Aristophanes

          Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. – c. BC)

          For other uses, see Aristophanes (disambiguation).

          For the Guadelopean comics artist, see Aristophane.

          Aristophanes (;[2]Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced[aristopʰánɛːs]; c.&#;&#;– c.&#; BC) was an Ancient Greekcomicplaywright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.[3] 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.[4]

          Also known as "The Father of Comedy"[5] and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy",[6] Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.[7] His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato[8] sin