This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...moisture of the brain. It is the same with water-cresses. Str, Dear me! So water-cresses grow by thinking 1 The so-called Old Comedy, in which individuals were satirized, died with Aristophanes, and to it succeeded the New Comedy, portraying general types of human nature, and dealing with domestic life and manners. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...moisture of the brain. It is the same with water-cresses. Str, Dear me! So water-cresses grow by thinking 1 The so-called Old Comedy, in which individuals were satirized, died with Aristophanes, and to it succeeded the New Comedy, portraying general types of human nature, and dealing with domestic life and manners. Menander (342-291 B. C), founder of this new school, was a warm Even the deities were burlesqued, and the devout Athenians, who denounced Euripides for venturing to doubt the gods and goddesses, were wild in applause when Aristophanes dragged them out as absurd cowards, or blustering braggarts, or as "Baking peck-loaves and frying stacks of pancakes." t The masks of the actors in Greek comedy were made to caricature the features of the persons represented. Cleon was at this time so powerful that no artist dared to make a mask for his character in the play, nor could any man be found bold enough to act the part. Aristophanes therefore took it himself, smearing his face with wine lees, which he declared " well represented the purple and bloated visage of the demagogue." X It is said that Socrates, who was burlesqued in this play, was present at its performance, which he heartily enjoyed; and that he even mounted on a bench that every one might see the admirable resemblance between himself and his counterfeit upon the stage. friend of Epicurus (p. 177), whose philosophy he adopted. He admired, as heartily as Aristophanes had disliked, Euripides, and his style was manifestly influenced by that of the tragic poet. He excelled in delineation of character, and made his dramatic personages so real that a century afterward it was written of him, Of his works only snatches remain, many of which were household proverbs among the Greeks a...
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