Aristophanes is the main extant writer of greek comedies. His comedies made fun of people and politics.

Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 388 B.C.) is one of our sources for the philosopher Socrates, mocking him as a humorous pedant and sophist, in the comedy The Clouds. Aristophanes also wrote a still popular anti-war play called Lysistrata about the women's sex strike to protest the Peloponnesian War. In Aristophanes' Frogs, the wine god Dionysus goes to the Underworld to bring back the playwright Euripides.