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Born c.450 BCE • ancient Greece
Died c.388 BCE
Notable Works “Acharnians”“Birds”“Clouds”“Frogs”“Lysistrata”“Peace”“The Babylonians”“The Banqueters”“Wasps”“Women at the Ecclesia”“Women at the Thesmophoria”
Movement / Style Middle ComedyOld Comedy

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