Aristophanes | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:27 1 Biography
00:12:23 1.1 Poetry
00:19:39 1.2 Rhetoric
00:21:22 2 Old Comedy
00:25:14 2.1 Topicality
00:30:18 2.2 Festivity
00:34:27 2.3 Complexity
00:38:03 2.4 Dramatic structure
00:39:59 2.4.1 Parabasis
00:43:42 3 Influence and legacy
00:47:34 3.1 Drama
00:48:56 3.2 Literature
00:49:57 3.3 Electronic media
00:50:57 3.4 Music
00:51:42 4 Works
00:51:51 4.1 Surviving plays
00:53:24 4.2 Datable non-surviving (lost) plays
00:53:42 4.3 Undated non-surviving (lost) plays
00:53:52 4.4 Attributed (doubtful, possibly by Archippus)
00:54:02 5 See also



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Aristophanes (; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. 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.Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.
Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights, the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all."