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The Clouds (" Nephelai ") is a Greek comedy play written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes . A lampooning of intellectual fashions in ___MASK24___ , it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423BC and was not as well - received as the author had hoped , coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year . It was revised between 420 and 417BC and was thereafter circulated in manuscript form . The Hellenistic period covers the period of ancient Greek ( Hellenic ) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the ___MASK39___ as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic ___MASK96___ the following year . At this time , Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe , Africa and Asia , experiencing prosperity and progress in the arts , exploration , literature , theatre , architecture , music , mathematics , philosophy , and science . It is often considered a period of transition , sometimes even of decadence or degeneration , compared to the enlightenment of the Greek Classical era . The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy , Alexandrian poetry , the Septuagint and the philosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism . Greek Science was advanced by the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes . The religious sphere expanded to include new gods such as the Greco - Egyptian Serapis , eastern deities such as Attis and Cybele and the Greek adoption of Buddhism . An Olympiad (" olympiás ") is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks . During the Hellenistic period , beginning with Ephorus , it was used as a calendar epoch . By this reckoning , the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC . By extrapolation to the Gregorian calendar , the 1st year of the (( 2017 + 779 )/ 4 -. 5 ) round 0th Olympiad begins in ( Northern - Hemisphere ) mid - summer 2017 . Lysistrata ( or ; Attic Greek : , " Army Disbander ") is a comedy by Aristophanes . Originally performed in ___MASK24___ in 411 BC , it is a comic account of one woman ' s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War . Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace  a strategy , however , that inflames the battle between the sexes . The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male - dominated society . Additionally , its dramatic structure represents a shift from the conventions of Old Comedy , a trend typical of the author ' s career . It was produced in the same year as the " Thesmophoriazusae ", another play with a focus on gender - based issues , just two years after Athens ' catastrophic defeat in the Sicilian Expedition . Aristophanes ( or ; c . 446  c . 386 BC ), son of Philippus , of the deme Kydathenaion , was a comic playwright of ancient ___MASK49___ . Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete . These , together with fragments of some of his other plays , provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy , and are used to define it . Souda is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit , Crete , ___MASK95___ . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania , of which it is a municipal unit . The municipal unit has an area of . It is an important ferry and naval port at the head of Souda Bay . The Suda or Souda is a large 10th - century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world , formerly attributed to an author called Suidas . It is an encyclopedic lexicon , written in Greek , with 30 , 000 entries , many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost , and often derived from medieval Christian compilers . The derivation is probably from the Byzantine Greek word " souda ", meaning " fortress " or " stronghold ," with the alternate name , " Suidas ", stemming from an error made by Eustathius , who mistook the title for the author ' s name . Hermippus ( fl . 5th century BC ) was the one - eyed Athenian ___MASK89___ of the Old Comedy who flourished during the Peloponnesian War . Life . He was the son of Lysis , and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus . He was younger than Telecleides and older than Eupolis and Aristophanes . According to the Suda , he wrote forty plays , and his chief actor was Simeron , according to the scholiast of Aristophanes . The titles and fragments of nine of his plays are preserved . He was a bitter opponent of Pericles , whom he accused ( probably in the " Moirai ") of being a bully and a coward , and of carousing with his boon companions while the Lacedaemonians were invading ___MASK41___ . He also accused Aspasia of impiety and offences against morality , and her acquittal was only secured by the tears of Pericles ( Plutarch , " Pericles ", 32 ). In the " Female Bread - Sellers ", he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus . The " Mat - Carriers " contains many parodies of Homer . Old Comedy (" archaia ") is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy , according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians . The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes  whose works , with their daring political commentary and abundance of sexual innuendo , effectively define the genre today . Aristophanes satirized and lampooned the most prominent personalities and institutions of his time , as can be seen , for example , in his scurrilous portrayal of Socrates in " The Clouds ", and in his racy anti - war farce " Lysistrata ". Aristophanes was only one of a large number of comic poets , however , working in ___MASK49___ in the late 5th century BC ; his biggest rivals were Hermippus and Eupolis . Strattis ( Ancient Greek :  ) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy . According to the Suda , he flourished later than Callias Schoenion . Therefore , it is likely that his poetry was performed at the 92nd Olympiad , that is , 412 BC . Strattis was a contemporary of Sannyrion and Philyllius , both of whom were attacked in the extant fragments of his plays . The drama in which Philyllius was attacked was the Potamioi . According to the scholiast of Aristophanes , this drama was performed before Aristophanes ' Ecclesiazusae . Therefore , this could not be later than 394 / 3 BC . Also , in his Anthroporrhaistes , Strattis attacked Hegelochus , the actor of the Orestes of Euripides . Therefore this play would have been performed later than 408 BC , the year in which the Orestes was performed . Strattis was performing his works at the end of the 99th Olympiad , that is , 380 BC , when he attacked Isocrates on account of his fondness for Lagisca when he was far advanced in years . The Suda gives a list of his works : The Human Orestes (  ) Atalante (  ) Good Men or Disappearance of the Money (     ) Iphigeron (  ) Callippides (  ) Cinesias (  ) Limnomedon (  ) Macedonians or Pausanias (    ) Medea (  ) Troilus (  ) Phoenician Women (  ) Philoctetes (  ) Chrysippus (  ) Psychastae (  ) This list is not complete . Other writers mention four more plays : Zopyros Surrounded By Flames (   ) Myrmidons (  ) Potamioi (  ) Pytisos (  ) Some authors call him , inaccurately , Strato . Some scholars believed the comic poets Strato and Strattis to be the same person , but this idea is now considered by most classicists as to be incorrect . Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical ___MASK95___ ( the others being tragedy and the satyr play ). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods : Old Comedy , Middle Comedy , and New Comedy . Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes , while Middle Comedy is largely lost , i . e . preserved only in relatively short fragments by authors such as Athenaeus of Naucratis . New Comedy is known primarily from the substantial papyrus fragments of Menander .