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Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)

For other uses, see Aristophanes (disambiguation).

For the Guadelopean comics artist, see Aristophane.

Aristophanes (;^[2]Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced[aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greekcomicplaywright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.^[3] He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today.

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.^[4]

Also known as "The Father of Comedy"^[5] and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy",^[6] Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.^[7] His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporarie