WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greek Comedy was a popular and influential form of theatre performed across ancient Greece from the 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aristophanes and Menander and their works and those of their contemporaries poked fun at politicians, philosophers, and fellow artists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lysistrata. Perhaps the most famous of ancient Greek comedies, the lewd and hilarious plot of ‘Lysistrata’ has seemed to age very well indeed. In this famous anti-war comedy, the women of Athens, led by the wise woman Lysistrata, have had enough of the Peloponnesian wars.

Detailed explanation-3: -ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanes, the most famous writer of Greek comedies, was born in the 440s b.c.e. He lived through the upheaval of the Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404, and stripped Athens of her place as cultural and political capital of the Greek city-states.