Plutus (aka Wealth) is a play written by the great Greek comedy playwright Aristophanes in 388 BCE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Plutus/ #History #Aristophanes #Ecclesiazusae #GreekComedy

Lysistrata was the third and final of the peace plays written by the great Greek comic playwright Aristophanes (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Lysistrata/ #History #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekTheatre

The Clouds is a comedy written c. 423 BCE by the Greek playwright Aristophanes (c. 448 BCE – c. 385 BCE). A failure at the Dionysia competition, finishing third out of three, it was revised later in 418 BCE but never produced in the author's lifetime.https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Clouds/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

Aristophanes (c. 460 - c. 380 BCE) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style.https://www.worldhistory.org/Aristophanes/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

Titus Maccius Plautus, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning 'flatfoot'), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a Roman writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a Greek-themed storyline. His plays are the earliest complete surviving works from Latin theatre and they are noted for adding even more outrageous comedy to traditional comic plays. Plautus...https://www.worldhistory.org/plautus/ #GreekComedy #Plautus #RomanComedy #History

The Wasps is a play written by the lone representative of Ancient Greece's Old Attic Comedy, Aristophanes (c. 445 - c. 386 BCE). It won second place at the Lenaea competition in 422 BCE. Written in two acts, the play focuses on a reoccurring theme, the tension between the old and new.
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