Aristophanes

Aristophanes was born around 446 BC in Athens and became the most famous writer of Old Comedy, the boisterous comic drama staged at the city's festivals in honor of Dionysus. His first play was produced in 427 BC, and he wrote about forty, of which eleven survive complete, more than of any other ancient comic writer. His plays mix fantasy, songs, jokes and sharp satire of public figures. The Clouds (423 BC) mocks the philosopher Socrates as a teacher of trickery, and Plato later suggested in his Apology that the play helped turn Athenians against Socrates. Much of his work was written during the long Peloponnesian War with Sparta, and several plays, including The Acharnians, Peace and Lysistrata (411 BC), in which the women of Greece refuse their husbands until they make peace, deal with the war. Other plays include The Wasps, The Birds and The Frogs. He died around 386 BC.

Aristophanes is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the Greek religion of Athens, at whose religious festivals his plays were performed. Source: Wikipedia