Aristophanes
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Aristophanes , ca. 456 BC – ca. 386 BC) was a Greek dramatist. He is also known as the Father of Comedy and author of the often performed ribald classic Lysistrata.
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Works
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Surviving plays
Most of these are traditionally referred to by abbreviations of their Latin titles; Latin remains a customary language of scholarship in classical studies.
- The Acharnians (Template:Polytonic Acharneis; Attic Template:Polytonic; Latin: Template:Lang) (425 BC)
- The Knights (Template:Polytonic Hippeis; Attic Template:Polytonic; Latin: Template:Lang) (424 BC)
- The Clouds (Template:Polytonic Nephelai; Latin: Template:Lang) (original 423 BC, uncompleted revised version from 419 BC – 416 BC survives)
- The Wasps (Template:Polytonic Sphekes; Latin: Template:Lang) (422 BC)
- Peace (Template:Polytonic Eirene; Latin: Template:Lang) (first version, 421 BC)
- The Birds (Template:Polytonic Ornithes; Latin: Template:Lang) (414 BC)
- Lysistrata (Template:Polytonic) (411 BC)
- Thesmophoriazusae or The Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria (Template:Polytonic (first version, c. 411 BC)
- The Frogs (Template:Polytonic Batrachoi; Latin: Template:Lang) (405 BC)
- Ecclesiazusae or The Assemblywomen; (Template:Polytonic) (c. 392 BC)
- Wealth (Template:Polytonic; Latin Plutus) (second version, 388 BC)
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Datable non-surviving (lost) plays
The standard modern edition of the fragments is Kassel-Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci III.2; Kock-numbers are now outdated and should not be used.
- Banqueters (427 BC)
- Babylonians (426 BC)
- Farmers (424 BC)
- Merchant Ships (423 BC)
- Clouds (first version) (423 BC)
- Proagon (422 BC)
- Amphiaraos (414 BC)
- Plutus (Wealth, first version, 408 BC)
- Gerytades (uncertain, probably 407 BC)
- Kokalos (387 BC)
- Aiolosikon (second version, 386 BC)
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Undated non-surviving (lost) plays
- Aiolosikon (first version)
- Anagyros
- Frying-Pan Men
- Daidalos
- Danaids
- Centaur
- Heroes
- Lemnian Women
- Old Age
- Peace (second version)
- Phoenician Women
- Polyidos
- Seasons
- Storks
- Telemessians
- Triphales
- Thesmophoriazusae (Women at the Thesmophoria Festival, second version)
- Women in Tents
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Attributed (doubtful, possibly by Archippos)
- Dionysos Shipwrecked
- Islands
- Niobos
- Poetry
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