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Old Comedy

Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with their daring political commentary and abundance of sexual innuendo, de facto define the genre. The only extant plays of Old Comedy are credited to…

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Aristophanes and his contemporaries

SocratesThe CloudsLysistrataHermippusEupolis
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Origins and history

Ancient GreekCity DionysiaLenaiaAristotleKomos
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HoraceRoman satireBen JonsonRacineGoethe
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Topicality

The KnightsThe WaspsPeaceClassical AthensPnyx
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related to Further reading · 101
Old Comedy → Aischrology, Alan, Alan Sommerstein, American Classical Studies, American Journal, Ancient Greek, Animal Choruses, Ann Arbor, Aristofane, Aristophanes, Aristophanes’ Clouds, Athenian Old Comedy, Atlanta, Barrett, Beyond Aristophanes, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ, Classica, Classical Press, Classical World
related to Topicality · 54
Old Comedy → All, Aristophanes, Athena, Athens, Attic, Boeotians, But, Chorus, City Dionysia, Cleon, Demos, Dionysus, Eleusinian Mysteries, Even, Foreigners, Frequent, Imaginative, In The Acharnians, In The Clouds, In The Knights
related to Festivity · 27
Old Comedy → Actors, Antimachus, Aristophanes, But, Chorus, City Dionysia, Consistent, Cratinus, Dionysus, Dirty, Female, He, Heracles, In, In Aristophanes, In The Acharnians, In The Wasps, New Comedy, Obvious, Sometimes
related to Later influence/parallels · 19
Old Comedy → Also, Aristophanes, Ben Jonson, Cervantes, Dr, European, François Rabelais, Goethe, Horace, Jonathan Swift, Miguel, Monty Python, Racine, Roman, Saturday Night Live, Strangelove, The Old Comedy, Voltaire, Western
related to Aristophanes and his contemporaries · 18
Old Comedy → All, Aristophanes, Aristophanic, Athens, BCE, Classical, Cratinus, Eupolis, Hermippus, In Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Middle, Northrop Frye, Possibly, Socrates, Song, The, The Clouds
related to history · 18
Old Comedy → According, Although, Ancient Greek, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Athenian, BCE, City Dionysia, Competition, Cratinus, Developments, Dionysian, Greece, Lenaia, Magnes, Pericles, The, The Acharnians
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Old Comedy → first period of the ancient Greek comedy

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comedy old aristophanes plays audience city dionysia chorus comic tragedy political play acharnians aristophanes' dramatic athens ancient greek lenaia also

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Old Comedyis afirst period of the ancient Greek comedy0.90text
Plutarchinstance ofFor ancient commentators0.80text
Aristotleinstance ofFor ancient commentators0.80text
New Comedy was a more sophisticated form of drama than Old Comedyinstance ofFor ancient commentators0.80text
Ben Jonsoninstance ofLater influence/parallelsHorace claimed a formative role for the Old Comedy in the making of Roman satire.The Old Comedy subsequently influenced later European writers0.80text
Racineinstance ofLater influence/parallelsHorace claimed a formative role for the Old Comedy in the making of Roman satire.The Old Comedy subsequently influenced later European writers0.80text
and Goetheinstance ofLater influence/parallelsHorace claimed a formative role for the Old Comedy in the making of Roman satire.The Old Comedy subsequently influenced later European writers0.80text
Drinstance ofOld Comedy displays similarities to modern-day political satires0.80text
Old Comedyrelated to Aristophanes and his contemporariesAristophanes0.60section
Old Comedyrelated to Aristophanes and his contemporariesSocrates0.60section
Old Comedyrelated to Aristophanes and his contemporariesThe Clouds0.60section
Old Comedyrelated to Aristophanes and his contemporariesLysistrata0.60section

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