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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights, Modern Greek dramatists and playwrights, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Alexis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander Aetolus, Agathon, Menander, Antiphanes, Diphilus, Theatre of ancient Greece, Nicos Nicolaides, Rosita Sokou, Epicharmus of Kos, Alexis Stamatis, Herodas, Dimitris Lyacos, Cratinus, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, List of ancient Greek playwrights, Apostolos Doxiadis, Ion of Chios, Poseidippus of Cassandreia, Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou, Nina Rapi, Petros Markaris, Giannis Skarimpas, Phrynichus, Angelos Terzakis, List of ancient Greek theatres, Susarion, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Vassilis Vassilikos, Eupolis, Theodectes, Acestor, Anaxandrides, Strattis, M. Karagatsis, Eunicus, Sannyrion, Eubulus, Theodor Kallifatides, Nicophon, Pherecrates, Achaeus of Eretria, Pantelis Horn, Dimitrios Mpogris, Ptolemaeus Chennus, Choerilus, Chionides, Epicrates of Ambracia, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Chaeremon, Philemon, Hegemon of Thasos, Plato, Xenocles, Pratinas, Nicochares, Iophon, Moschion, Amphis, Sositheus, Carcinus, Epigenes of Sicyon, Rhinthon, Euphantus, Philyllius, Callias, Magnes, Aeantides, Achaeus of Syracuse, Homerus of Byzantium, Alcaeus, Dimitris Psathas, Georgios Chortatzis, Apollodorus of Carystus, Machon, Python of Catana, Phormis, Cleophon, Neophron, Aristarchus of Tegea, Aphareus, Telecleides, Autocrates. Excerpt: Aristophanes (English pronunciation: Ancient Greek:, ca. 446 BC - ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and t...
