Meaning of Aristophanes | Babel Free

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1. a male given name, Aristophanes, from Ancient Greek — famously held by:
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2. Aristophanes simpliciter (circa 446–386 BC), ancient Athenian comic poet and playwright (the most distinguished comic poet of Greece, from Lindus, on the island of Rhodes, a contemporary of Socrates)
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3. Aristophanes of Byzantium (circa 257–185/180 BC), Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic, and grammarian, head of the Library of Alexandria from 197 BC until his death, credited with the invention of polytonic Greek orthography (a distinguished grammarian of Byzantium, pupil of Eratosthenes, and teacher of the critic Aristarchus)
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Examples

“Aristophanes quoque non uno libro sic institui pueros antiquitus solitos esse demonstrat”

Aristophanes, in more than one of his plays, demonstrates that boys were trained thus from antiquity

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