Excerpt from The Ecclesiazusae of Aristophanes: Acted at Athens in the Year B. C. 393, the Greek Text Revised, With a Translation Into Corresponding Metres, Introduction and Commentary
The Ecclesiazusae has come down to us unaccompanied by any didascalia or other evidence of its date, beyond what may be gathered from the play itself and the comments of the Greek Scholiasts thereon. But the information derivable from these sources makes it abundantly clear that the play was exhibited in the spring of the year B.C. 393, in the third year of the 96th Olympiad, when Eubulides was archon.
And Praxagora, their leader, delivers a speech of considerable length, in the serious part of which she is doubtless expounding the poet"s own views respecting the political condition of Athens.
"Then again this Alliance, when we were deliberating about it, they vowed that not to conclude it would be the ruin of the State: but when once it was concluded, they were disgusted with it; and the orator who persuaded them into it had straightway to cut and run." Lines 193-196.
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