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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: ... plays), and [[Euripides]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary sour...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
58: ...ring this period: the dramatists [[Aeschylus]], [[Aristophanes]], [[Euripides]], and [[Sophocles]], the philosop...
97: ...n, but many idealists from the Greek cities also enlisted. But while Alexander was campaigning in Thra... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
3: ... BC]]. Some classicists suggest that his winning only one prize was due to him not an Athenian by birt...
5: ...hat [[Euripides]] took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes quotes him twice, in ''The Frogs'' and ''[[The Wa... - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...[Plato]]. He is best known from his mention by [[Aristophanes]] (''Thesmophoriazusae'') and in Plato's ''[[Symp...
4: ...s a delicate and effeminate youth, and it may be only for the sake of punning on his name that he make...
6: ...ent of truly virile expression and deficient in manly thought and vigor. With him begins the decline o...
8: See: Aristophanes, ''Thesmoph.'' 59, 106, ''Eccles.'' 100 - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
22: ...[[Herma|hermai]], and Alcibiades was accused not only of being the originator of the crime, but also o...
26: ...n his absence and his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send ...
42: * [[Aristophanes]] mentions Alcibiades several times in his satiri...
52: ** 11 comedies by Aristophanes et al.: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8688 Part... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
7: ...e most important art or occupation. According to Aristophanes, he managed a scientific institute with his frien...
11: ... led Socrates to the conclusion that he was wise only in so far as he ''knew'' he knew nothing and str...
25: :''False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul wit...
27: ... rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another...
44: ...rld/authrec?fk_authors=965 The satirical plays by Aristophanes] - Drama (12658 bytes)
3: ...ripides]] is portrayed in the [[Acharnians]] of [[Aristophanes]] crying out, "Oimoi ta dramata!" (Oh no what's ...
13: ...ons with others--this allows participants to not only learn facts as they would from a book or in a cl...
40: D.I.E. (Drama in Education). Unlike Theatre in education, D.I.E. is based more upo...
52: ...or wrong way of doing. As a result, its effects, unlike theater performances, are often unique and unr... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...nnesian War]]''. Most of the extant comedies of [[Aristophanes]] were written during this war, and poke fun at t...
5: ... allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leade...
13: ...Piraeus]]. The Spartans also occupied Attica for only a few months at a time; in the tradition of earl...
49: ...de some money and 100 ships that were to be used only as a last resort.
63: ...[[battle of Aegospotami]], destroying 168 ships; only 12 Athenian ships escaped, and several of these ... - Eros (mythology) (4590 bytes)
5: ... and [[Tartarus]], the underworld; according to [[Aristophanes]]' play ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'', he bu... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
32: ...esult of this behaviour is that a flock will use only a few preferred locations, rather than having a ...
40: ...s on the incubation of eggs, a state that is commonly known as ''going broody''. A broody chicken will...
50: ...re processed for food. Chicken feet are less commonly eaten. The head, internal organs such as the lu...
52: ...r in the [[Middle Ages]]. Caponizing a rooster, unlike castrating a cow or pig, requires delicate sur...
54: ...commonly eaten. The chicken egg is the most commonly eaten bird egg in the world. <!-- not sure if pr... - Frog (6440 bytes)
14: ...ug o' rum". The [[Ancient Greeks]] (for example [[Aristophanes]]) spelt the croak of the usual Greek species of ... - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: ... plays), and [[Euripides]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary sour...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
38: ...E, after conquering the Nanda Empire when he was only about 20 years old.
85: [[Image:MauryanCastCopperCoinLate3rdCenturyBCE.jpg|thumb|left|Mauryan cast coppe...
117: ...[[Kautilya]]'s ''[[Arthashastra]]'' contains not only maxims on ancient statecraft, but also unambiguo...
172: ...ry much sought after by all men (for really, as [[Aristophanes]] says, "There's really nothing nicer than dried ...
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