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    Aristophanes (/ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from...
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  • Firmin Aristophane Boulon (published as Aristophane, the French name of Aristophanes) was a Guadeloupe-born cartoonist. A graduate of the French schools...
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  • Look up Aristophanes, Aristophanean, Aristófanes, or Ἀριστοφάνης in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aristophanes (c. 456 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient...
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  • Aristophanes of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος Aristophánēs ho Buzántios; Byzantium c. 257 – Alexandria c. 185–180 BC) was a Hellenistic...
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  • 2934 Aristophanes /ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/, provisional designation 4006 P-L, is a carbonaceous Veritasian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt...
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    abbreviated Ran. or Ra.) is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in...
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    Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, lit. 'army disbander') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account...
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    Νεφέλαι, Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally...
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  • Crambus aristophanes is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1961. It is found in Kenya. "GlobIZ search". Global...
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    Conus aristophanes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. These snails are predatory...
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    Ὄρνιθες, romanized: Órnithes) is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia in Athens where it won...
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  • earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BC on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate...
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    Socrates, the general and statesman Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The panegyrics are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and...
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    Assemblywomen (category Plays by Aristophanes)
    and A Parliament of Women) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 391 BC. The play invents a scenario where the women of Athens assume...
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    Aristophanes (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης; active between 430 and 400 BC in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. Three...
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    is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens' short-lived...
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  • Empusa (section Aristophanes)
    on young men. The primary sources for the empousa in Antiquity are Aristophanes's plays (The Frogs and Ecclesiazusae) and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius...
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    Alexandrian grammarians. The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with their daring political commentary and abundance of...
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  • of inserting the root of a radish into the anus. It is mentioned by Aristophanes as a punishment for adultery in Classical Athens in the fifth and fourth...
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  • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a comic play and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater, wrote 40 comedies, 11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed...
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    Lamia (section Aristophanes)
    parents in Spain, Portugal and Latin America used the Coco. A scholiast to Aristophanes claimed that Lamia's name derived from her having a large throat or gullet...
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  • history, a significant number still survive. These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and...
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    Nymphalidae Genus: Charaxes Species: C. gamma Binomial name Charaxes gamma (Lathy, 1898) Synonyms Polyura gamma Eriboea aristophanes Fruhstorfer, 1913...
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  • Byzantine-Hellenistic period to Aristophanes, Peace 758, quoted by Ogden (2013b), p. 98 Diodorus Siculus, 20.41.3-6, Scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 1035; Commentary...
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  • Kimball and Stratton Lysistrata Jones 2011 Broadway Lewis Flinn Flinn Douglas Carter Beane Based on the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes....
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    survives today largely in the form of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes; Middle Comedy is largely lost, i.e. preserved only in relatively short...
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    an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a...
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    than most. Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs. But Aristophanes also borrowed...
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  • Menelaos by Helen of Troy or a slavewoman Nicostratus (comic poet), son of Aristophanes, a poet of the Middle Comedy (4th century BC) Nicostratus of Rhodes,...
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  • the Peloponnesian island of Cythera, from which to harry the Spartans. Aristophanes produces the comedy, Knights The temple to Athena Nike (also known as...
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