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The Birds and Other PlaysAbout the Author7
Aristophanes in Antiquity9
Aristophanes, Comedian and Poet21
The Knights29
Peace91
The Birds147
The Assemblywoman215
Wealth265
Notes313
Select Bibliography336
Little is known about Aristophanes' life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life. David Barrett has translated a number of ancient Greek texts for Penguin Classics.
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