Aristophanes
He is the best-known surviving author of Old Comedy. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 5 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Aristophanes trivia questions
Aristophanes was famous for writing what?
Answer: Comedies
Bonus fact: He is the best-known surviving author of Old Comedy.
Which Aristophanes play features women withholding sex to pressure men to end a war?
Answer: Lysistrata
Bonus fact: The comedy satirizes the Peloponnesian War.
Which philosopher is satirized in Aristophanes' The Clouds?
Answer: Socrates
Bonus fact: The play presents a comic caricature of Socratic intellectual life.
Which ancient Greek playwright is famous for comedies such as Lysistrata?
Answer: Aristophanes
Bonus fact: Aristophanes is the best-known surviving writer of Old Comedy.
"The Frogs" is based on a comedy by which ancient Greek playwright?
Answer: Aristophanes
Bonus fact: The original play sends Dionysus to the underworld in search of a great dramatist.