Last name: Arystofanes
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Also known as: Aristophanes, Aristophanes from Athens
Born: 446 p.n.e. (Athens, Greece)
Died: 385 p.n.e. ().
Arystofanes – ur. Ok. 446 p.n.e., He died OK. 385 p.n.e., The greatest creator of the Old Attic comedy, author 40 (the 44) work, of which eleven have survived: Acgartens (425 p.n.e.), Knights (424), Clouds (423), Axis (422), Room (421), Birds (414), Lizystrat (411), Women on the Thesmoform festival (411), Frogs (405), Sejm niewieści (392), Bóg bogactwa (388). He debuted as an 18 -year -old in the fourth year of the Peloponian war (427 p.n.e.) komedią Feasts (The text is missing) on pedagogical themes. Również następna komedia Babylonians nie zachowała się, But the young author was successful, winning the first prize at the Djonists in 426 p.n.e. It was a political comedy – Aristofanes specialty, which showed the ills of the Athens Democratic System, attacking egoistic politicians not taking into account the interests of the rural population, Appearing in defense of the room, common sense and values of past times. Attachment to the idealized past is accompanied by Aristophanes's sensitivity to current accidents – Hence, his comedies are saturated with numerous allusions to real events and their heroes, Aristophanes quite freely modifies the real views and behavior of the prototypes of his real heroes. Jego komedie nie noszą charakteru mirrors
rzeczywistości, but satires close to the grotesque and parody. Caricatured, Astofanes's comedy based on the concept is also a comic myth, syntetyzującym forces of modern poet of reality in a fantastic projection, and also poetic
(Tadeusz Sinko). The features of this comedy writing also include making the observation to the observes, A tendency to exaggeration and malice. To the comedy of Aristophanes, which is a manifestation of the crisis of the Athenian civilization, nawiązywało wielu pisarzy epoki solstice
(m.in. Erazm of Rotterdam, Francois Rabelais, I'm Jonson, Laurence Stern, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Włodzimierz Majakowski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Friedrich Durrenmatt).
The first Polish translations of Aristofanes comedy appeared in the second half of the 19th century.: Clouds (In translation of Marceli Mottem, 1866). Aristofanes' works were explained by, among others: Bogusław Butrymowicz, Edmund Drawwicz, Józef Jedlicz, Stefan Srebrny, Artur sandauer, Janina Ławińska-Tyszkowsa.