High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Acharnians (Ancient Greek: ???????? / Attic ??????? / Akharne?s) is the third play - and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays - by the great Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival. The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the author's spirited response to his prosecution the year before by Cleon - he had been charged with slandering the Athenian polis in his previous play,