Plato on Aristophanes
Date Submitted: 12/07/2004 19:54:31
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1019 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1019 words)
"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 …
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