Aristophanes, an Athenian playwright whose comedies made harsh references to prominent leaders,
A) also wrote a tragedy about a woman who defied the city-state to fulfill a family moral obligation.
B) ridiculed prominent Athenian women with both profanity and sexual innuendo.
C) won a lawsuit filed against him by a major Athenian political figure who disliked the way he was portrayed in one of Aristophanes' comedies.
D) ended his plays with appeals to the audience to honor the gods and observe tradition.
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