Aristophanes Acharnians 1

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Acharnians. Aristophanes. Anonymous (Translator). New York. 192?.

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Ἀχαρνῆς Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 0-203 focus

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Acharnians

1. A name invented by Aristophanes and signifying a just citizen.
2. Cleon had received five talents from the islanders subject to Athens , on condition that he should get the tribute payable by them reduced; when informed of this transaction, the knights compelled him to return the money.
3. A hemistich borrowed from Euripides' Telephus.
4. The tragedies of Aeschylus continued to be played even after the poet's death, which occurred in 436 B.C., ten years before the production of The Acharnians.
5. A tragic poet, whose pieces were so devoid of warmth and life that he was nicknamed [the Greek for] snow.
6. A bad musician, frequently ridiculed by Aristophanes; he played both the lyre and the flute.
7. A lively and elevated method.
8. A hill near the Acropolis, where the Assemblies were held.
9. Several means were used to force citizens to attend the assemblies; the shops were closed; circulation was only permitted in those streets which led to the Pnyx; finally, a rope covered with vermilion was drawn round those who dallied in the Agora (the market-place), and the late-comers, ear- marked by the imprint of the rope, were fined.
10. Magistrates who, with the Archons and the Epistatae, shared the care of holding and directing the assemblies of the people; they were fifty in number.
11. The Peloponnesian War had already, at the date of the representation of The Acharnians, lasted five years, 431- 426 B.C.; driven from their lands by the successive Lacedaemonian invasions, the people throughout the country had been compelled to seek shelter behind the walls of Athens .