Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) ARISTOPHANES BY REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A. AUTHOR OF ‘ETONIANA,’ ‘THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,’ ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXII CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION, 1 “ II. THE KNIGHTS, 14 “ III. COMEDIES OF THE WAR: THE ACHARNIANS.--THE PEACE.--LYSISTRATA, 38 “ IV. THE CLOUDS, 75 “ V. THE WASPS, 101 “ VI. THE BIRDS, 112 “ VII. THE FROGS, 125 “ VIII. THE WOMEN’S FESTIVAL.--THE ECCLESIAZUSÆ, 139 “ IX. PLUTUS, 154 NOTE. In ‘The Knights,’ ‘The Acharnians,’ ‘The Birds,’ and ‘The Frogs,’ most of the translated extracts are taken, by permission, from the admirable version of those comedies by the late Mr Hookham Frere, and are marked (F.) For all translations not so marked the present writer is responsible. ARISTOPHANES. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.