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By Aristophanes.

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Kind of writing
Comedy
Dialect
Attic
Written
5th–4th c. BC
Length
11,718 words analysed
Vocabulary
70% common words
In the library
1 Greek text, 1 English translation

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In The Painted Stoa

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Three teachers, a slave to walk you there, and Homer by heartGoing to school in AthensThere were no state schools in classical Athens.Wine, water, song and argument: the Greek drinking partyThe symposiumA symposion means "drinking together".

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

Greek text size
20 px
Line spacing
1.8

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