CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Which of these ancient Greek playwrights became famous for writing something other than tragedies?
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Aeschylus
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Aristophanes
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Euripides
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Sophocles
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aristophanes, (born c. 450 bce-died c. 388 bce), the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. He is the only extant representative of the Old Comedy-that is, of the phase of comic dramaturgy (c.
Detailed explanation-2: -Aristophanes (/ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/; Ancient Greek: , pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete.
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