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Definition of Aristophanes

1. Noun. An ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC).

Definition of Aristophanes

1. Proper noun. An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC. ¹

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Literary usage of Aristophanes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"As, moreover, there can be no true estimate formed of the old Greek comedy except through a study, at first or second hand, of the plays of Aristophanes, ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"Aristophanes for English Readers. By W. Lucas Collins, MA Edinburgh and London, Reprint, ... The Wasps of Aristophanes. Revised, with a Translation into ..."

3. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"REVIEWS The Acharnians of Aristophanes. Edited, from the MSS and other original Sources, by Richard Thomas Elliott. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press (1914). ..."

4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"I BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE The extant manuscripts of Aristophanes number about two ... The first edition of Aristophanes was published at the endof the ..."

5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 72 by Harvard University Department of Classics Staff, Department Of Classi Harvard University (1906)
"THE object of this paper is to collect the passages in Aristophanes which bear ... The testimony of Aristophanes as to the life and manners of his time must ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"BY PAUL SHOREY JHE birth-year of Aristophanes is placed about 448 BC, ... Aristophanes is the sole extant representative of the so-called Old Comedy of ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"Of all the plays of Aristophanes, they are perhaps, next to the Birds, the two most difficult to be understood hy an unclassical reader—nay, ..."

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