Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes was born in Athens around 446 B.C., in the Kydathinaion Municipality (today Plaka), where he spent all his life, except for a short time lived on the island of Aegina.
He is referred to as the Father of Comedy. Aristophanes wrote 40 plays but only 11 have weathered through the test of time: "The Acharnians", "The Knights", "The Clouds", "The Wasps", "Peace", "The Birds", "Lysistrata", "Thesmophoriazusae", "The Frogs", "Ecclesiazusae" and, "Plutus" ("Wealth"). Aristophanes died in 387 B.C. in Delphi in central Greece.
