A place & possibly a precise date of his birth come unknown, however he was probably educated inside Athens. He is illustrious for writing comedies like The Birds for a two Athenian festivals: the Dionysia and the Lenea. He wrote at least 30 plays, eleven of which however live, & his plays come a exclusively living examples of Greek Old Comedy. Several of his plays were political, and typically satirized the well-known citizens of Athens & their conduct in the Peloponnesian War. He is known to keep around been prosecuted for Athenian law's same of libel more than once. A far-famed comedy, The Frogs, was given the unprecedented honor of another performance.

He appears inside Plato's Symposium, giving the humourous fabulous account of the origin of Love. The Clouds pokes fun at famous numbers, notably Socrates, and might use contributed to the most common misconception of the philosopher as a Sophist. Lysistrata was written during a Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and presents a pacifist theme in a risible manner: the women of the ii states deprive their hubby of sex until they prevent fight. This play was late illustrated eventually by Pablo Picasso.

Surviving plays
The Acharnians (425 BC) The Knights (424 BC) The Clouds (second version, 423 BC) The Wasps (422 BC) Peace (first version, 421 BC) The Birds (414 BC) Lysistrata (411 BC) Thesmophoriazousae ("The Festival Women", foremost version, ca.410 BC) The Frogs (405 BC) Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen", ca.392 BC) Plutus ("Wealth", second version, 388 BC)

Dated non-surviving plays
Banqueters (427 BC) Babylonians (426 BC) Farmers (424 BC) Merchantman (423 BC) The Clouds (first version) (423 BC) Proagon (422 BC) Amphiaros (414 BC) Plutus ("Wealth", first version, 408 BC) Gerytades (uncertain, probably 407 BC) Koskalos (387 BC) Aiolosikon (2nd version, 386 BC)

Undated non-surviving plays
Aiolosikon (1st version) Anagyros Broilers Daidalos Danaids Dionysos Shipwrecked Centaur Niobos Heroes Islands Lemnian Women Old Age Peace (2nd version) Phoenician Women Poetry Polyidos Seasons Storks Telemessians Triphales Thesmophoriazousae ("The Festival Women", 2nd version) Women Encamping