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‘“Wealth”. The last of the author’s plays to be produced in his lifetime, “Wealth” (388BC[E]; Greek Ploutos) is a somewhat moralising work and does not enhance his reputation – though, as suggested,* it may have inaugurated the Middle Comedy.

‘Shortly after producing his “Wealth”, Aristophanes died, leaving two plays (now lost), the Aiolosikon ** and the Kokoles which his son staged c[irca]386 BC[E]; both of them are generally assumed to have been mythological burlesques.

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*[At [Redbook8:257-258][19910214:1610l]{Classical Greek Dramatists [continued (13)][– Aristophanes]]}[14th February 1991]]

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20]: 398

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