Plato on Aristophanes

Title: Plato on Aristophanes
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Plato on Aristophanes

"The Age of Heroes was passed and the Age of Iron was come."(Lord 31) This age was the time when Aristophanes, the great Greek comic-poet, had lived and produced his fine works of literature. Aristophanes was "born an Athenian citizen some time in the decade following 450 BC"(Lord 21) "The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC and dragged its weary course till 404 BC"(Lord 22-23) Aristophanes lived to see his city shorn of all her power, her fleets …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…the true interests of Athens. (Hugill iii) Works Cited Aristophanes. Lysistrata. Trans. by Donald Sutherland. Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman. Ed. Robert W. Corrigan. Applause Books, 1987. 11 – 68 Hugill, William. Panhellenism in Aristophanes. The University Of Chicago Press, 1936. Chicago. Lord, Louis. Aristophanes: His Plays and His Influence. Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. New York. Plato. The Symposium. Trans. by William S. Cobb. Plato’s Erotic Dialogues: The Symposium and The Phaedrus. State University of New York Press, 1993. 15 –59. (Commentary 61 – 84).

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