- The
Acharnians or
Acharnians (Ancient Gr****: Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneîs; Attic: Ἀχαρνῆς) is the
third play — and the
earliest of the
eleven surviving plays — by...
- to
modern Acharnes). It was from the
woods of this
mountain that the
Acharnians were
enabled to
carry on that
traffic in
charcoal for
which they were...
- The
Acharnians seems to
indicate that the "poet" had a close,
personal ****ociation with the
island of Aegina. Similarly, the hero in The
Acharnians complains...
- in Athens,
though the
first preserved ancient comedy is Aristophanes'
Acharnians,
produced in 425. Like poetry, Gr****
prose had its
origins in the archaic...
-
scholars to have died, the
Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes created The
Acharnians, in
which he
blames the
Peloponnesian War on the
abduction of some prostitutes...
-
later still, only
about 20
years before the
performance there of The
Acharnians, the
first of Aristophanes'
surviving plays.
According to Aristotle, comedy...
- Lysistrata's
divided Chorus is
found in the
earliest of the
surviving plays, The
Acharnians,
where the
Chorus very
briefly divides into
factions for and
against the...
-
square is
situated just
outside the
ancient Acharnian Gate of
classical Athens. It was
called Acharnian because through it p****ed the road to the Acharnai...
-
Babylonians (426 BC), for
which the
young dramatist had
promised revenge in The
Acharnians (425 BC), and it was in The
Knights (424 BC) that his
revenge was exacted...
- (sycophantikos) – the pun
however is
developed more
explicitly in The
Acharnians (
Acharnians line 725-6) Phalerum: An old port of Athens, it is a
source of sardines...
