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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristophanes

Aristophanes
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Acharnians (425 B.C.)

Background:

The Acharnians concerns the "men of Acharnae," a deme seven miles to the
north of Athens. It was the third play written by the young Aristophanes - the
first two are lost - under the pseudonym of Callistratus. This play, written
seven years after the Peloponnesian War began and five years after Pericles'
death, is a political play urging the Athenians to make peace with the
Spartans. The Acharnians won first prize at the Festival of Lenaea in 425 B.C.

Characters:

Dicaeopolis "Just city," the model of the good citizen of ...

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