Aristophanes Research Paper

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Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. It said Aristophanes had written almost 44 comic plays but just 11 of them survived now.These 11 famous plays are The Acharnians ,The Knights,The Clouds,The Wasps,Peace,The Birds,Lysistrata ,Thesmophoriazusae ,The Frogs ,Ecclesiazusae,Wealth.According to the influence he made to comic plays, he was called the Father of Comedy.
Aristophanes was born in 448 B.C. as a Athenian citizens and died in 380 B.C.His comic plays are “a general masquerade of the world, beneath which there passes much that is not allowed by the common rules of propriety.”(ARISTOPHANES AND HIS COMEDIES by Plays by Aristophanes) Thus he always offend some moguls at that time.For example, at 429 B.C., Aristophanes wrote

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