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Aristophanes
[ ar-uh-stof-uh-neez ]
noun
- 448?鈥385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Aristophanes
/ 藢忙谤瑟藞蝉迟蓲蹿蓹藢苍颈藧锄 /
noun
- Aristophanes?448 bc?380 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?448鈥?380 bc , Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
Aristophanes
- An ancient Greek dramatist, the author of such comedies as The Clouds and Lysistrata.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 础路谤颈蝉路迟辞路辫丑补苍路颈肠 [uh, -ris-t, uh, -, fan, -ik], adjective
Example Sentences
Philosophers recognized drama鈥檚 power too: Although Plato critiqued theater鈥檚 emotional pull, he admitted that 鈥渢he comedy of Aristophanes鈥 had deeply influenced Socrates鈥 public image.
鈥淧laywrights like Aristophanes were there to make fun of the rulers but also to make our hearts bleed about the tragedy of humankind,鈥 Ms. Evangelatos said.
A librarian in Alexandria, Egypt, Aristophanes of Byzantium, thought the system could stand improving.
鈥淭he Hang鈥 certainly gets its digs at Aristophanes.
Instead he decided his future lay as a serious stage actor and he was offered a leading role in a production of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata in 1946.
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