Clouds
The career of Aristophanes as a writer of comedies lasted forty years, from 427 to c. 386. At least forty plays were attributed to him in antiquity, eleven of which survived into the Middle Ages and thus to our own day: the earliest of these eleven is Acharnians(425) and the last Wealth(388)....
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The career of Aristophanes as a writer of comedies lasted forty years, from 427 to c. 386. At least forty plays were attributed to him in antiquity, eleven of which survived into the Middle Ages and thus to our own day: the earliest of these eleven is Acharnians(425) and the last Wealth(388). Clouds was produced in 423, and was placed by the judges third of the three plays competing at the City Dionysia that year.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780872205161 (0872205169)
Publish date: March 1st 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Philosophy,
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