For ten points, identify this Greek comedian, author of The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs.
This man's rivals included Cratinus and Eupolis. In Plato's Symposium, he delivers a speech in which he argues that men were originally quadrupeds before being bisected by Zeus, and concludes that love is the pursuit of the other half. His earliest play was the now lost Banqueters, while his second, Babylonians, criticized the demagogue Cleon, which he continued to do in The Acharnians and The Knights. Other plays of his concern the building of Cloudcukooland, a sex-strike by women to end a war, and a literary contest in hell. For ten points, identify this Greek comedian, author of The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs.
This man's rivals included Cratinus and Eupolis. In Plato's Symposium, he delivers a speech in which he argues that men were originally quadrupeds before being bisected by Zeus, and concludes that love is the pursuit of the other half.
{Aristophanes}