This book offers an analysis of all subordinate clauses of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes, informed by syntax, semantics and pragmatics; new perspectives are opened for the linguistic interpretation of these texts. It emerges that such factors as position in a dialog and stylistic register exert a considerable influence on the linguistic formation of the whole sentence. By means of a precise description of the constructions considered, Aristophanes is situated in his historical-linguistic context. The conclusions drawn have wider implications, both for the understanding of Greek syntax in general and that for other languages.