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Aristophanes, in Greek ΄Αριστοφανης, (c. 448 BC – 380 BC ) was a Greek comic dramatist. The place and even exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was probably educated in and the Lenea . He wrote forty plays, eleven of which still survive, and his plays are the only surviving examples of Old Attic Comedy . Many of his plays were Political , and often Satirized the well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War . He is known to have been prosecuted for Athenian law's equivalent of Libel more than once. A famous comedy, '' The Frogs '', was given the unprecedented honor of a second performance. According to a later biographer, he was also awarded a civic crown for '' The Frogs ''. He appears in until they stop fighting. This play was later illustrated at length by Pablo Picasso . A well-known saying 'can't live with them, can't live without them,' comes from one of Aristophanes' plays. Aristophanes's words in Lysistrata B.C. , line 1038 (the original text as translated by Dudley Fitts was: "These impossible women! How they do get around us! / The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!"). SURVIVING PLAYS
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