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	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Acharnians by Aristophanes
		I was hurrying to bring your treaty of truce, but some old dotards from Acharnae got scent of the thing; they are veterans of Marathon, tough as oak or maple, of which they are made for sure-rough and ruthless.
		This last is a truce of thirty years, both on sea and land.
		When I was young, in the days when I followed Phayllus, running with a sack of coals on my back, this wretch would not have eluded my pursuit, let him be as swift as he will.
	classics.mit.edu /Aristophanes/acharnians.html (6791 words)

	The Acharnians
		The object of the Acharnians is to induce the Athenian people to put an end to the Peloponnesian war, which already threatened the destruction of the State, and a year or two later caused its downfall.
		Undeterred by the anger of the Acharnians, who crave vengeance for the destruction of their vineyards, an honest citizen, named Dicaeopolis, enraged at the false pretexts for continuing the war with Sparta, sends an embassy to Lacedaemon and concludes a separate peace for himself and his family.
		In spite of all opposition, he builds an enclosure around his house, within which there is peace and free market for the neighboring people, while the rest of the country is harassed by war.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates024.html (454 words)

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	Thucydides-Passages
		The situation appeared to be convenient, and the Acharnians, being a considerable section of the city and furnishing three thousand hoplites, were likely to be impatient at the destruction of their property, and would communicate to the whole people a desire to fight.
		The Acharnians, having lost their own possessions, would be less willing to hazard their lives on behalf of their neighbours, and so there would be a division in the Athenian counsels.
		The Acharnians, who in their own estimation were no small part of the Athenian state, seeing their land ravaged, strongly insisted that they should go out and fight.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=2.20-24 (1048 words)

	Articles on Acharnians. CLST 4003H University of Arkansas Professor Daniel B. Levine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristophanes' use of the game of kottabos in his "Acharnians" to trace the cause of the Peloponnesian War is discussed.
		Aristophanes' evocation of kottabos as a symbolic cause of the war is but one small element of his mission to enlighten the people politically.
		Lamachus and Xerxes in the Exodus of Acharnians.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/AcharniansBibliog.html (313 words)

	Aristophanes - MSN Encarta
		Aristophanes wrote more than 40 plays, of which 11 are extant.
		His first three plays were produced under pseudonyms, including The Acharnians (425 bc), a plea for ending the war with Sparta.
		The Knights (424 bc), the first of the plays of Aristophanes to be presented under his own name, is a devastating satire about Athenian politician and military leader Cleon, champion of the democratic forces and leader of the war party.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575957/Aristophanes.html (459 words)

	Aristophanes
		This time, instead of appealing to the desire for sex, wine and food, as in the Acharnians, he appeals solely to the desire for sex, but the end result is the same.
		Aristophanes portrays the men who try to force the women out of the Acropolis as being old, bumbling and incapable of even carrying tree trunks up to the Acropolis, in order to try to break their way in.
		In Lysistrata, as well as in the Acharnians, the protagonists have as their primary motivation the base desire for pleasure.
	physics.usc.edu /~crathfel/aristoph.htm (884 words)

	The Acharnians of Aristophanes: Plot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A CLASSICAL ANTI-WAR PLAY in the Greek tradition, "The Acharnians" of Aristophanes is a hilarious satire which follows the attempts of the hero Dicaeopolis to make a personal peace with the Spartans, against whom his native city of Athens is fighting in the Peloponnesian War.
		After side-stepping informers, the Athenian Assembly, a belligerent general, and the playwright Euripides, Dicaeopolis convinces the Chorus of Acharnians, coal-miners who have lost all to the Spartan invasions, that maybe Athens' war isn't serving their interests after all.
		Stunningly contemporary in its themes and translation, the Acharnians is as powerful an indictment of unnecessary war today as 2400 years ago, when it was first produced.
	www.umich.edu /~grkplay/acharnians/plot.html (122 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Acharnians by Aristophanes
		I was hurrying to bring your treaty of truce, but some old dotards from Acharnae got scent of the thing; they are veterans of Marathon, tough as oak or maple, of which they are made for sure-rough and ruthless.
		When I was young, in the days when I followed Phayllus, running with a sack of coals on my back, this wretch would not have eluded my pursuit, let him be as swift as he will.
		But now my limbs are stiff; old Lacratides feels his legs are weighty and the traitor escapes me. No, no, let us follow him; old Acharnians like our selves shall not be set at naught by a scoundrel....
	webatomics.com /Classics/Aristophanes/acharnians.html (6791 words)

	SparkNotes: The Clouds: Context
		The war would drag on for decades until a conclusive peace was reached in 404 BCE.
		Thus, much of Aristophanes's adulthood passed amidst the turmoil of war, and much of his work, such as The Acharnians and Lysistrata suggest how the war taxed the minds, bodies, and souls of the Athenian people.
		Aristophanes is the only extant dramatist of Greek "Old Comedy." Although he composed anywhere from thirty-six to fifty comedies during his lifetime, only eleven survive from which we may deduce qualities of the genre—its unsparing satire, its extravagant word play, its grand physical comedy, and its insistent moral core.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theclouds/context.html (597 words)

	Aristophanes, Acharnians
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0240 (833 words)

	Acharnians
		Acharnians is, like Lysistrata, a hilarious indictment against war.
		He is the author of groundbreaking translations and articles on Greek comic dramatists.
		Acharnians is both a hilarious comedy and a forceful indictment of war.
	www.pullins.com /Books/00870AristopAcharn.htm (187 words)

	Guide: Committee to Produce Greek Play, The Acharnians by Aristophanes, Records, 1886, University of Pennsylvania ...
		The Acharnians was presented in the original ancient Greek.
		An elaborate illustrated libretto with the Greek text and the English translation in parallel columns could be purchased to render the play intelligible to the large portion of the audience unfamiliar with the Greek language.
		There are also two published books of music complete with lyrics and scores composed by Hugh A. Clarke as well as numerous photographs of the actors in costume, including those taken by Eadweard Muybridge.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /faids/ups/ups68_2.html (468 words)

	Ethics of Greek Theatre by Sanderson Beck
		In The Acharnians, produced in 425 BC, Aristophanes complained the politician had lied, slandered, and abused him nearly to death.
		Dicaeopolis, whose name means just city, is waiting for the assembly to begin; but the Prytanes as usual are late, and he says they do not care one jot for peace.
		The Acharnians, however, pelt him with stones for making the treaty and call him a traitor, hating him worse than Cleon.
	www.san.beck.org /EC20-GreekTheatre.html (20292 words)

	New Page 2
		Chicago's Tripaway Theatre is clearly a politically provocative troupe whose updated version of Aristiphanes's Fifth Century B.C. comedy has been adapted by Karin Shook and Kerstin Broockmann to address the drifts of the current G. Bush administration from controversial elections to ecological concerns over rejecting of the Kyoto accords to corporate favoritism.
		If you are easily offended, a Christian fundamentalist, a fan of our current sitting president, or have some sort of a phallic phobia, this is not the play for you.
		For everyone else, it's one hell of a giddy, "South Park"-induced, triple-caffeinated, timely and witty rehash of Aristophanes' comedy, The Acharnians.
	www.acorntheater.com /prod07.htm (349 words)

	Aristophanes, The Clouds
		His first play, The Banqueters (428/7), was produced when he was under-age, and won the Second Prize.
		The Acharnians belonged to the Lenaia of 425, where Aristophanes won First Prize over Kratinos and Eupolis.
		The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C. (Socrates would have been about 45 at the time).
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/aristoph-clouds.html (953 words)

	Aristophanes & The Acharnians Discussion Deck
		And the brave of heart shall certainly wish to sign their souls aboard The Jolly Roger.
		Aristophanes, The Acharnians, The Clouds, and The Knights all sail aboard The Jolly Roger.
		Kinghts, Acharnians, Ecclesiazusae - Chris Akstin 16:30:28 2/13/100
	westerncanon.com /cgibin/lecture/Aristophaneshall/mobydick.html (1577 words)

	Amazon.com: acharnians: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristophanes: The Acharnians, the Clouds, the Knights, the Wasps (Loeb Classical Library) by Aristophanes and Benjamin B Rogers (Hardcover - Mar 1986)
		Acharnians;: The knights and the birds (Morley's universal library) by Aristophanes (Unknown Binding - 1887)
		Aristophanes, Volume One: The Acharnians, The Clouds, The Knights, The Wasps by Benjamin Bickley (trans.) Rogers (Hardcover - 1924)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=acharnians&tag=theatrehistoryco&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (385 words)

	Aristophanes
		His first surviving play, The Acharnians, was written in the sixth year of the War and, coincidentally, happens to be the world's first anti-war comedy.
		Inspired by the suffering of the rural population of Attica, the area surrounding Athens which was exposed to continual
		Already satirized in The Acharnians, Euripides was later to became the subject of two more plays: Thesmophoriazusae (Women at the Festival of Demeter) and The Frogs.
	www.amherst.edu /~afrossi/comedy/aristophanes.html (939 words)

	Ancient Greek Literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His jeers at the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides provide one of the earliest examples of literary criticism.
		Of his 54 comedies, only 11 have survived: the Acharnians, the Birds (generally regarded as his masterpiece), the Clouds, the Ecclesiazusae (the women in politics), the Frogs, the Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus (his last play), the Thesmophorizusae and the Wasps.
		One of the three greatest tragic playwrights, Euripides is most known for introducing the "apo mihanis theo" (deus ex machina, a god from the machine).
	www.hol.gr /greece/ancwords.htm (653 words)

	Euripides - Crystalinks
		He was a frequent target of Aristophanes' humor.
		He appears as a character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazousae, and most memorably in The Frogs, where Dionysus travels to Hades to bring Euripides back from the dead.
		After a competition of poetry, Dionysus opts to bring Aeschylus instead.
	www.crystalinks.com /euripides.html (553 words)

	The Acharnians, Aristophanes - Section 4 of 8 - Book Club/Plays - ArcaMax Publishing
		f[1] 'The Babylonians' had been produced at a time of year when Athens was crowded with strangers; 'The Acharnians,' on the contrary, was played in December.
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	www.arcamax.com /plays/b-1455-4 (1447 words)

	aristophanes - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		We know that Aristophanes play was on Miltons mind when he composed...is a paraphrase of Acharnians 530-31.
		Volume 1: Acharnians, Knights; 408 pages, $19.95...arrive the first two volumes of Jeffrey Hendersons Aristophanes.
		It is the general aim of these new Loeb editions...
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=aristophanes (1534 words)

	The Acharnians Summary
		Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Acharnians in Greek The Acharnians(Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρνεῖς/ Akharneĩs) is a comedic play by the ancient Greek satirist Aristophanes.
		In the following essay, MacDowell examines Dikaiopolis's use of the Euripidean hero and his trappings in order to promote his speech urging peace with Sparta.
		In the following essay, Spatz traces the development of Dikaiopolis's character in the Acharnians, from a poor refugee to a triumphant, powerful individual.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Acharnians (127 words)

	The Use of Food in Aristophanes' The Acharnians term papers research
		The Use of Food in Aristophanes' The Acharnians term papers research
		This 5 page paper provides an overview of the use of food in Aristophanes' The Acharnians and defines the importance in terms of the political messages in the play.
		This paper argues that the use of food not only defined class differentiations in the play, but was used to underscore the revelations of victory and the celebratory aspects of the play, all of which were used to convey the power of the victor.
	www.realpapers.com /papers/The_Use_of_Food-144-000.html (187 words)

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