The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

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Аристофан

Год написания книги

2018

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Megara was allied to Sparta and suffered during the war more than any other city, because of its proximity to Athens.

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: Throughout this whole scene there is an obscene play upon the word [Greek: choiros], which means in Greek both 'sow' and 'a woman's organs of generation.'

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Sacrificial victims were bound to be perfect in every part; an animal, therefore, without a tail could not be offered.

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The Greek word, [Greek: erebinthos], also means the male sexual organ. Observe the little pig-girl greets this question with three affirmative squeaks!

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The Megarians used the Doric dialect.

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A play upon the word [Greek: phainein], which both means to light and to denounce.

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An informer (sycophant), otherwise unknown.

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A debauchee of vile habits; a pathic.

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Mentioned above; he was as proud as he was cowardly.

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An Athenian general, quarrelsome and litigious, and an Informer into the bargain.

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A comic poet of vile habits.

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A painter.

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A debauchee, a gambler, and always in extreme poverty.

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This kind of flute had a bellows, made of dog-skin, much like the bagpipes of to-day.

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A flute-player, mentioned above.

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A hero, much honoured in Thebes; nephew of Heracles.

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A form of bread peculiar to Boeotia.

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A lake in Boeotia.

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He was the Lucullus of Athens.

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This again fixes the date of the presentation of the 'Acharnians' to 426 B.C., the sixth year of the War, since the beginning of which Boeotia had been closed to the Athenians.

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An Informer.

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The second day of the Dionysia or feasts of Bacchus, kept in the month Anthesterion (February), and called the Anthesteria. They lasted three days; the second being the Feast of Cups, a description of which is to be found at the end of this comedy, the third the Feast of Pans. Vases, filled with grain of all kinds, were borne in procession and dedicated to Hermes.

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A parody of some verses from a lost poet.

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A feasting song in honour of Harmodius, the assassin of Hipparchus the Tyrant, son of Pisistratus.

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The celebrated painter, born at Heraclea, a contemporary of Aristophanes.