. The birds. With introd. and notes by Merry . mm BR mBmmuWmmuwSKam Saul■HHE& BfflHflffl 99 in 5^»l H nffTBIffffiffrMPri ■■■■■_ H If USB IHh ■I Hi .M>r*uma»i«M«> «n«-rf»m«»*»»,ftiiii ^f<r. Oxford University Press WarehouseAmen Corner, INTRODUCTION. i. Between the eleventh and thirteenth of the month Ela-phebolion, 01. 91. 2, corresponding to one of the last days inMarch, or the first in April, 414, the play of the Birdswas produced in the name of Callistratus at the City (counting only the extant comedies of Aristophanes)we find a wide gap between the
. The birds. With introd. and notes by Merry . mm BR mBmmuWmmuwSKam Saul■HHE& BfflHflffl 99 in 5^»l H nffTBIffffiffrMPri ■■■■■_ H If USB IHh ■I Hi .M>r*uma»i«M«> «n«-rf»m«»*»»,ftiiii ^f<r. Oxford University Press WarehouseAmen Corner, INTRODUCTION. i. Between the eleventh and thirteenth of the month Ela-phebolion, 01. 91. 2, corresponding to one of the last days inMarch, or the first in April, 414, the play of the Birdswas produced in the name of Callistratus at the City (counting only the extant comedies of Aristophanes)we find a wide gap between the production of the Peacein 422, and that of the Birds in 414. There is a markeddifference in tone between the Birds and the earlier dramasof Aristophanes. It is not that the play of his genius is lessgraceful, or his inventiveness less bright, but that we missthe spirit of daring lampoon and outspoken political seems only reasonable to attribute this change to thelimitations imposed upon the comic stage by the law ofSyracosius, an insignificant personage, who was probablyoniy the mouth-piece of a powerful political clique1. Thislaw, by restricting the irappijtria of the poet, robbed
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