450 bce died c.
Aristophanes attic greek.
Aristophanes was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient greece sometimes referred to as the father of comedy eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete along with up to with 1 000 brief fragments of other works and are the only real examples we have of a genre of comic drama known as old comedy.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
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380 bce was the most famous writer of old comedy plays in ancient greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style.
388 bce the greatest representative of ancient greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity.
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This was new comedy the stock character filled comedy of manners written by the greek menander and his roman imitators.
The languages of aristophanes.
Little is known about the personal history of this man although he was obviously highly educated and celebrated in greek society but his plays survive as a fascinating record of a turbulent period in greek history.
The orator quintilian believed that the charm and grandeur of the attic dialect made old comedy an example for orators to study and follow and he considered it inferior in these respects only to the works of homer.
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The language of aristophanes plays and in old comedy generally was valued by ancient commentators as a model of the attic dialect.
The languages of aristophanes aspects of linguistic variation in classical attic greek by andreas willi and publisher oup oxford.
The languages of aristophanes.
Aspects of linguistic variation in classical attic greek.
By examining linguistic variation in aristophanic comedy this book opens up a new perspective on intra dialectal diversity in classical attic greek.
A grammatical sketch p 232 appendix aristophanes attic.
Aristophanes was a greek playwright and philosopher who lived from 450 bce to around 385 bce.