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The Wasps (Classical Greek: Σφῆκες, romanized: Sphēkes) is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes.It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens' short-lived respite from the Peloponnesian War.
Cynegeticus (Ancient Greek: Κυνηγετικός, Kynegetikos "related to hunting" from κυνηγέω "I hunt"), is a treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher and military leader Xenophon, usually translated as "On Hunting" or "Hunting with Dogs." [1] It is one of the four works by Xenophon on arts or skills (each ends with -ikos/-icus).
Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...
The Molossus were dogs that were kept by the ancient Greek tribe and kingdom of the Molossians, who inhabited the region of Epirus. [1] [2]The Molossus were famous throughout the ancient world for their size and ferocity and were frequently mentioned in ancient literature, including the writings of Aristophanes, [3] Aristotle, [4] Grattius, [5] Horace, [6] [7] Lucan, [8] Lucretius, [9] Martial ...
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A folk etymology construes the name to mean "one-footed" (from Greek *έμπούς, *empous: en-, one + pous, foot). [5] [4] In Aristophanes's comedy The Frogs, an Empusa appears before Dionysus and his slave Xanthias on their way to the underworld, although this may be the slave's practical joke to frighten his master. Xanthias thus sees (or ...
The sieve of Eratosthenes can be expressed in pseudocode, as follows: [8] [9] algorithm Sieve of Eratosthenes is input: an integer n > 1. output: all prime numbers from 2 through n. let A be an array of Boolean values, indexed by integers 2 to n, initially all set to true.
Aristophanes of Boeotia, a writer mentioned in Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus. He is also described in the Suda as having written a book about Thebes (Θηβαϊκά), which the Suda liberally quotes. His works are lost and nothing further is known of him. Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 – c. 185 BC), Greek scholar, critic and grammarian