reflect civilian life during the war. Several plays by the Athenian Aristophanes were written and set during the war (particularly Peace and Lysistrata)...
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Alcibiades. See original text in Perseus program Aristophanes. The Frogs – via Wikisource. Aristophanes, Wasps. See original text in Perseus program Aristotle...
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(son of Chaeris), ancient Greek writer, mentioned by the scholiast on Aristophanes Apollonius (son of Sotades), writer Apollonius Dyscolus (fl. 2nd century...
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of Travels in Arabia Deserta John Hookham Frere - poet, diplomat, and translator of Aristophanes Tim Hunkin – artist, inventor, author, cartoonist, engineer...
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Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance...
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Anthos (or The Flower) Mysoi (or Mysians) Telephos (or Telephus) Thyestes Aristophanes (c. 446 BC – c. 386 BC) Banqueters (427 BC) Babylonians (426 BC) The...
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during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle...
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presenter. Her other sister, Kasia, is a children's writer who later married diplomat Philip Parham. She attended Bristol University, where she first began to...
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John Hookham Frere PC (21 May 1769 – 7 January 1846) was an English diplomat and author. Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, a member of...
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said that "Will Rogers in the Follies is carrying on the tradition of Aristophanes, and not unworthily." Rogers branched into silent films too, for Samuel...
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Some poor people had to stay at home and help their parents. However, Aristophanes and Socrates, though they were poor, became famous and successful. The...
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Separate Tables (Rattigan, PHCo/BKL, Albery Theatre) 1993 Lysistrata (Aristophanes, trans. Bolt, PHCo/BKL, Old Vic, Wyndham's and Epidaurus) 1993 She Stoops...
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DMP · 896 897 Lysistrata 1918 DZ The anti-war comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes DMP · 897 898 Hildegard 1918 EA Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)...
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Adolf Hoffmeister (category Czech diplomats)
playwright, painter, draughtsman, scenographer, cartoonist, translator, diplomat, lawyer, university professor and traveller. During the war, editor of...
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hand-drawn feature film Lysistrata, based on the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, which Williams joked should be sub-titled "Will I Live to Finish It...
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2018-07-12. Delante Bravo, Chrostopher (2012). Chirping like the swallows: Aristophanes' portrayals of the barbarian "other". p. 9. ISBN 978-1-248-96599-3. Baracchi...
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erected in Sounion. 448 BC Bardyllis, king of Dardania (d. 358 BC) 446 BC Aristophanes, Greek playwright (approximate year) (d. c. 385 BC) Marcus Furius Camillus...
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Callias III (category 4th-century BC diplomats)
110 Xenophon, Hellenica, iv. 5 Xenophon, vi. 3, v. 4 Andocides, 130; Aristophanes, The Frogs, v. 432; Athenaeus, iv. 67; Aelian, Varia Historia, iv. 16...
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winning goal Socrates (1971) The Clouds (423 BC) Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that lampoons intellectualism in classical Athens; Socrates features...
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the celebrated comedy of circa 411BCE Lysistrata, by the playwright Aristophanes: [Several women enter, headed by MYRRHINA, from the deme (=suburb) of...
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Anacreon Apollodorus Apollonius Rhodius Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristophanes Aristophanes of Byzantium Callimachus Cassius Dio Dionysius Thrax Euripides...
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Demosthenes (category 4th-century BC diplomats)
of Thurii, Antipater's confidant. The Alexandrian Canon, compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace, called Demosthenes one of...
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Pamphylia). Delante Bravo, Chrostopher (2012). Chirping like the swallows: Aristophanes' portrayals of the barbarian "other". p. 9. ISBN 978-1-248-96599-3. Baracchi...
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt – Sonnets and Songs of Proteus Robert Browning – Aristophanes' Apology Alice Meynell – Preludes See also 1875 in poetry Allgemeine...
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la mutation de fortune . The Chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810) was a French diplomat and soldier who appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations...
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grammarian Aristonous – citharode Aristonymus – comedian Aristophanes of Byzantium – scholar Aristophanes – playwright Aristophon - several people Aristotle...
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and engineer William Starkie (1860–1920), Greek scholar, translator of Aristophanes, and President of Queen's College, Galway Christopher Steel (1938–1992)...
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(480BC–430BC), sculptor, painter and architect (Statue of Zeus at Olympia). 52. Aristophanes (446BC–386BC), playwright (Lysistrata). 53. Kostis Palamas (1859–1943)...
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Yesterday (1956, TV) Born Yesterday (1993) The Boss (1915) The Boudoir Diplomat (1930) Boudu (2005) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) The Boy Friend (1926)...
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Yarrington, art historian Nan Dunbar, known for her 1995 edition of Aristophanes' The Birds. Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classical scholar and politician...
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