Ἀριστοφάνης
Aristophanes
The master of Old Comedy, eleven of whose plays survive complete.
- Acharnians Ἀχαρνῆς
A farmer makes his own peace with Sparta, and the men of Acharnae want him dead for it.
Lenaia, 425 BC · first prize
- Knights Ἱππῆς
A sausage-seller out-demagogues the Paphlagonian, Cleon in all but name, and Demos comes out young again.
Lenaia, 424 BC · first prize
- Clouds Νεφέλαι
Strepsiades sends his son to Socrates to learn how to cheat his creditors, and burns the school down.
City Dionysia, 423 BC · third prize · the surviving text is a later revision, never staged
- Wasps Σφῆκες
A juror who cannot stop convicting is locked in the house by his son.
Lenaia, 422 BC · second prize
- Peace Εἰρήνη
Trygaeus rides a dung-beetle to heaven to dig up Peace.
City Dionysia, 421 BC · second prize
- Birds Ὄρνιθες
Two Athenians build a city in the sky and starve the gods into surrender.
City Dionysia, 414 BC · second prize
- Lysistrata Λυσιστράτη
The women of Greece go on sex strike to end the war, and it works.
411 BC, probably at the Lenaia · result unknown
- Women at the Thesmophoria Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι
Euripides' kinsman infiltrates the women's festival in drag and is caught.
411 BC, probably at the City Dionysia · result unknown
- Frogs Βάτραχοι
Dionysus goes to Hades for a poet, judges Aeschylus against Euripides, and brings Aeschylus back.
Lenaia, 405 BC · first prize · restaged, the hypothesis says, for its parabasis
- Assemblywomen Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι
The women take over the assembly and make property and sex common to all.
c. 392 BC · festival and result unknown
- Wealth Πλοῦτος
Wealth is blind, and Chremylus has him cured.
388 BC · festival and result unknown