ARISTOPHANES

Famously known as: Comic Playwright & Poet

Nationality: Greek

Born on: 446 BC

Born in: Athens

Place of death: Athens

Father: Philippus

Works & Achievements: Wrote many significant works including, The Acharnians (425 BC), The Knights (424 BC), The Clouds (423 BC), The Wasps (422 BC), Peace (421 BC), The Birds (414 BC), Lysistrata (411 BC), The Frogs (405 BC) and Wealth II (388 BC).

 

Aristophanes is known to have written over forty plays, which the first one was written in 427 B.C.E and the last one around 386 B.C.E (308). Aristophanes is also popularly known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. It was believed that Aristophanes recreated the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. Even the influential contemporaries like Plato acknowledged his powers of ridicule. There is very little information about Aristophanes. All of the known information is knowledge through his many plays. There is no certainty about the exact location of his birth (​"Aristophanes").