Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #History #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus

Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). Despite this, it is possible to uncover significant information regarding this sometimes forgotten comic poet by looking at his own comic fragments, what Aristophanes says about...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus