Plato lived a generation after aristophanes .

柏拉图生活了一代又阿里斯托芬。

Double portrait of aristophanes and sophocles .

阿里斯托芬和索福克勒斯双头像。

The first great dramatists ( aeschylus , sophocles , aristophanes ) , the greatest sculptors in history ( phidias ) , and socrates all lived in athens in the 5th century bc .

第一批伟大的剧作家（埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、阿里斯托芬），历史上最杰出的雕刻家（菲迪亚斯），和苏格拉底都生活在公元前5世纪的雅典。

The most brilliantly inventive of comic playwrights , aristophanes was happy to mock contemporary athenian politicians of every stripe . He was also the first to coin a word for " innovation " .

作为具有最出色创造力的喜剧剧作家，阿里斯托芬乐于揶揄当时雅典的各类政客，他同时也是“innovation（创新）”一词的创造人。

Sophocles ( 495-405 bc ) , was a giant of the golden age of greek civilisation , a dramatist who work alongside and competed with aeschylus , euripides and aristophanes .

索福柯勒斯（公元前495--405），希腊文明黄金时代的一位巨人，戏剧家，他与埃斯库罗斯、欧里庇得斯和阿里斯托芬一起创作并相互竞争。