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Aristophanes (circa 445 - 388 BCE)

The best-known ancient Greek comic dramatist, Aristophanes wrote at least 40 plays, 11 of which still exist. One of the most popular of his plays for present-day audiences is Lysistrata (411), in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to end a war.

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