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The greatest writer of comedies, he even made fun of other playwrights

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The most famous comedian is Aristophanes, born 440.BC. He even made fun of tragedy and tragedians. He also made fun of other playwrights, like Euripdes in The Frogs, and even the philosophers, like Socrates in The Clouds. By the time he died, he wrote forty-four comedies. Some of the comedies speak of the long Peloponnesian war, and more famous is the Lysistrata, whose heroine leads a sexual strike to achieve peace.

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