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Aristophanes
Aristophanes, portrait bust, c. 4thâ1st century bce; in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
In his debut play, The Banqueters (Daitaleis), produced in 427 BCE, Aristophanes satirized the educational and moral theories of his contemporaries.1