The Acharnians

Fiction & Literature, Classics
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Author: Aristophanes ISBN: 9782819944980
Publisher: Release Date: November 27, 2011 Publication: November 27, 2011
Imprint: pubOne.info Language: English
Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9782819944980
Publisher: Release Date: November 27, 2011
Publication: November 27, 2011
Imprint: pubOne.info
Language: English
This is the first of the series of three Comedies— 'The Acharnians, ' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'— produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace. In date it is the earliest play brought out by the author in his own name and his first work of serious importance. It was acted at the Lenaean Festival, in January, 426 B. C. , and gained the first prize, Cratinus being second.
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This is the first of the series of three Comedies— 'The Acharnians, ' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'— produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace. In date it is the earliest play brought out by the author in his own name and his first work of serious importance. It was acted at the Lenaean Festival, in January, 426 B. C. , and gained the first prize, Cratinus being second.

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