person
Aristophanes
also: Aristophanes
The greatest surviving poet of Athenian Old Comedy (c. 446–386 BC); cited by Horace as a model for satire's frank naming of wrongdoers.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.4 Aristophanes
The chief surviving poet of Athenian Old Comedy (c. 446–386 BC); his frank ridicule of named men is the genealogy Horace claims for satire.