Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated Into Familiar Blank Verse, With Notes, Preliminary Observations on Each Play, Etc
It is well observed by the ingenious Author of the T Ilea tre of the Greeks, (p. 353. Third edition); The most honourable testimony in favour of Aristophanes, is that of the sage Plato, who read him continually, and sent the Clouds to the elder Dionysius, (though in that play not only the web of the Sophists was attacked, but Philosophy itself, and his master Socrates, ) signifying to him, that by means of this play he might make himself acquainted with the Athe nian republic. By this he could scarcely mean that the play was a proof of the unbridled democratic freedom which pre vailed at Athens, but he meant it as a testimony of the poet's deep knowledge of the world, his thorough insight into the whole machinery of the civil constitution.
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