Aristophanes (/ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He...
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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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The Clouds (redirect from The Clouds of Aristophanes)
in all Aristophanes' early plays and his attempts to prosecute Aristophanes for slander in 426 had merely added fuel to the fire. Aristophanes however...
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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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Lysistrata (redirect from Lysistrata (Aristophanes))
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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The Frogs (redirect from Frogs of Aristophanes)
the original text. Aristophanes, Frogs. Kenneth Dover (ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), p. 2. Griffith, Mark (2013). Aristophanes' Frogs. Oxford approaches...
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between choruses. In fact eight of Aristophanes' eleven surviving plays are named after the Chorus. In Aristophanes' time, the Chorus in tragedy was relatively...
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Symposium (Plato) (section Aristophanes' speech)
Agathon and Aristophanes that a skillful playwright should be able to write comedy as well as tragedy (223d). When Agathon and Aristophanes fall asleep...
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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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survey in 1960, and later named after ancient Greek dramatist Aristophanes. Aristophanes was discovered on 25 September 1960, by Dutch astronomers Ingrid...
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The Acharnians (redirect from Acharnians (Aristophanes))
Acharnians, Aristophanes reveals his resolve not to yield to attempts at political intimidation. Along with the other surviving plays of Aristophanes, The Acharnians...
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Cleon (section Aristophanes and Thucydides on Cleon)
negative way, predominantly by Thucydides and the comedic playwright Aristophanes, who both represent him as an unscrupulous, warmongering demagogue. Cleon...
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The Birds (play) (redirect from Birds (Aristophanes))
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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The title of her doctoral thesis was "The Oversubtle Maxim Chasers: Aristophanes, Euripides, and their Reciprocal Pursuit of Poetic Identity". Her doctoral...
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Polyura gamma (redirect from Eriboea aristophanes)
Nymphalidae Genus: Charaxes Species: C. gamma Binomial name Charaxes gamma (Lathy, 1898) Synonyms Polyura gamma Eriboea aristophanes Fruhstorfer, 1913...
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Comedy survives today largely in the form of the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes; Middle Comedy is largely lost and preserved only in relatively short...
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152-3 Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Oxford World's Classics) 1st Edition by Aristophanes (Author)...
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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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invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion. Aristophanes' play Plutus is performed. Aristophanes, Greek playwright (approximate year) Thrasybulus...
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Penia (section Aristophanes' portrayal)
such as Alcaeus (Fragment 364), Theognis (Fragment 1; 267, 351, 649), Aristophanes (Plutus, 414ff), Herodotus, Plutarch (Life of Themistocles), and Philostratus...
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The Wasps (redirect from Wasps (Aristophanes))
in Aristophanes: The Wasps D. MacDowell, Oxford University Press 1971, p. 7 Aristophanes' Traditionalisme W.Kassies (1963), cited in Aristophanes: The...
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Assemblywomen (category Plays by Aristophanes)
follows Aristophanes’ conflict structure of the republic in trouble, a solution suggested and that solution ultimately failing. Aristophanes’ plays mostly...
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2021-02-20. "Leo Strauss: On Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae, & translation [1966]". Retrieved 2013-03-20. "The Ecclesiazusae of Aristophanes". Retrieved 2013-03-20...
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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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text of Aristophanes’ most famous play slavishly. But it does, I hope, give readers and audiences a flavour of what is timeless in Aristophanes, and of...
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Peace (play) (redirect from Peace (Aristophanes))
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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The Knights (category Plays by Aristophanes)
Greek: Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of Old Comedy. The play is a satire on...
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Empusa (section Aristophanes)
Scholion to Aristophanes, Frogs 393: Rutherford, Willam G., ed. (1896), Scholia Aristophanica, vol. 1, London: Macmillan, pp. 312–313 Aristophanes, The Frogs...
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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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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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