The complete online text of The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes.

Aristophanes (448-after 385 BC) was the greatest of the writers of the Old Comedy, which flourished in Athens in the 5th century BC, and the only one with any complete plays surviving. He wrote at least 36 comedies, of which 11 are extant. The Old Comedy...

Robert Neil, Aristophanes' Knights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901); Maurice Platnauer, Aristophanes' Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964); Kenneth Dover, Aristophanes' Clouds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968); Douglas MacDowe...

Aristophanes of Athens was judged in antiquity to be the foremost poet of Old Attic Comedy, a theatrical genre of which he was one of the last practitioners and of which his eleven surviving plays are the only complete examples. His plays are valued prin...

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