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Aristophanes - Comic Playwright

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Aristophanes is the only representative of Old Comedy whose work we have in complete form. He pokes fun of Socrates in The Clouds, by portraying him as a sophist. He wrote plays with social commentary, like the anti-war comedy Lysistrata.
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