Little is known about Aristophanes' life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but
there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. His first comedy
was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of
his life.
Erich Segal has taught Classics at Harvard, Yale and Princeton and
is currently an Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has
published widely on Greek and Roman Comedy, his latest book, The
Death of Comedy, was published in 2001. He is also the author of
nine best-selling novels.
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