Aristophanes

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Athenian ancient Greek comic playwright comic poet dramatist

Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright best known for his sharp political satire and surviving works such as "Lysistrata" and "The Clouds."

Aliases (2)

Aristophanes’ comedies ×1
comedies of Aristophanes ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Athenian → ancient Greek comic playwright → comic poet → dramatist →
approximateDateOfBirth	c. 446 BCE →
approximateDateOfDeath	c. 386 BCE →
birthPlace	Athens →
countryOfCitizenship	Classical Athens →
culture	Ancient Greek culture →
ethnicGroup	Greek →
floruit	4th century BCE → 5th century BCE →
genre	Old Comedy →
hasWorkInGenre	political comedy → satire →
influenced	Menander → Roman comic playwrights → Western comedy →
knownFor	comic choruses → political satire → social satire →
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek →
movement	Old Comedy →
notableWork	Ecclesiazusae → Lysistrata → Peace → Plutus → The Acharnians → The Birds → The Clouds → The Frogs → The Wasps → Thesmophoriazusae →
numberOfSurvivingPlays	11 →
occupation	playwright → poet →
participantIn	Dionysia → Lenaia →
placeOfDeath	probably Athens →
portrayed	Socrates in The Clouds →
styleCharacteristic	choral parabasis → direct address to audience → fantastical plots → obscene humor →
workSubject	Athenian democracy → Peloponnesian War → Sophists → philosophers such as Socrates →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Pheidippides → Socrates' Thinkery →	creator
Plato's Symposium → Συμπόσιον →	featuresCharacter
Classical Greece → Greek Antiquity →	hasNotablePlaywright
Pausanias →	associatedWith
Clouds →	author
Euripides →	contemporaryOf
Strepsiades →	createdBy
Cleon →	describedBySource
Eryximachus →	dialogueCompanions
Agathon →	dialoguePartner
Serenade after Plato's Symposium →	hasCharacterReference
Classical period →	hasMajorFigure
Plato's Symposium →	includesSpeechBy
Classical Athens →	notablePlaywright
Ancient Greek ("comedies of Aristophanes") →	notableWork
Aristodemus →	reportsSpeechesOf
Euripides ("Aristophanes’ comedies") →	subjectOf