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Aristophanes

448 BC - 386 BC

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His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2024). Aristophanes is the 48th most popular writer (down from 46th in 2024), the 14th most popular biography from Greece (up from 17th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Writer.

Aristophanes is most famous for his comedies. He wrote many plays, but he is most famous for "The Knights," "The Clouds," and "The Frogs."

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Among Writers

Among writers, Aristophanes ranks 48 out of 7,302Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, and Friedrich Schiller. After him are Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, Émile Zola, and Gustave Flaubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 448 BC, Aristophanes ranks 1After him are Bardylis, and Agathon. Among people deceased in 386 BC, Aristophanes ranks 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Aristophanes ranks 14 out of NaNBefore him are Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Solon (-638), and Pericles (-494). After him are El Greco (1541), Euripides (-480), Saint Stephen (1), Thucydides (-460), Aeschylus (-525), and Bayezid II (1447).

Among Writers In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Aristophanes ranks 3Before him are Homer (-800), and Sophocles (-497). After him are Euripides (-480), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Arion (-700), and Archilochus (-680).

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