Classical Antiquity
Aristophanes, _the greatest of comic writers in Greek and in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has survived in complete form He was born in Athens about the middle of the fifth century B C, and had his first comedy...
Aristophanes, _the greatest of comic writers in Greek and in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has survived in comp...
2. Chapter 2CHOR. Now wheel your sacred dances through the glade with flowers bedight, All ye who are partakers of the holy festal rite; And I will with the women and the holy maidens go Wh...
3. Chapter 3CHOR. We also are yearning from these to be learning Some stately measure, some majestic grand Movement telling of conflicts nigh. Now for battle arrayed they stand, Tongues emb...
4. Chapter 4EUR. How the twin-throned powers of _Achaea, the lords of the mighty Hellenes_. O phlattothrattophlattothrat! Sendeth _the Sphinx, the unchancy, the chieftainess blood-hound._ O...