Aristophanes

Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.

Books by Aristophanes

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Lysistrata
Aristophanes
3.9 (35k) average on GoodreadsFiction
Tired of endless war, Athenian woman Lysistrata leads a city-wide sex strike to end the Peloponnesian conflict, sparking a funny and serious battle of the sexes that exposes war's foolishness and power dynamics in ancient Greece.
Clouds
Aristophanes
3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy
Aristophanes' comedic "Clouds" satirizes the intellectual and moral failings of Athenian society, skewering Socrates and his philosophical school as purveyors of sophistry and impiety.