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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS
Wasps ( Sphēkĕs , Lat. Vespae ),
comedy by Aristophanes , produced in 422 BC at the Lenaea , where it won second prize.The play is a satire on the system of the jury courts at Athens which at that time provided, through payment for jury service, an important means of support for a sizeable number of poor and elderly men who were Athenian citizens. Philocleon (‘love- Cleon ’) is consumed by a passion for serving on juries. His son Bdelycleon (‘loathe-Cleon’) has tried to cure him and has finally imprisoned him in his house. Philocleon's friends, the ...
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