. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. in?/ y -^A ?/-Mm. COjMEDY as well as Tragedy was the pecu-liar invention of the highly-gifted Athen-ian people. It grew out of the commoncelebration of the great festival of Diony-sus, or Bacchus, at the yearly vintage. Themerry songs of the people had been madethe vehicle of hits at passing events. Pub-lic men were held up to ridicule ; politicalconflicts were made the subject of did not appear until Tragedy had,by lapse of time, lost much of its impres-sive force. While Euripides, the third andla
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. in?/ y -^A ?/-Mm. COjMEDY as well as Tragedy was the pecu-liar invention of the highly-gifted Athen-ian people. It grew out of the commoncelebration of the great festival of Diony-sus, or Bacchus, at the yearly vintage. Themerry songs of the people had been madethe vehicle of hits at passing events. Pub-lic men were held up to ridicule ; politicalconflicts were made the subject of did not appear until Tragedy had,by lapse of time, lost much of its impres-sive force. While Euripides, the third andlast of the great tragic poets, was still furnishing serious anddidactic dramas, though of less lofty one than those of hispredecessors, Aristophanes came before the pleasure-lovingAthenians with a charming variation. He gave them livelydialogue, full of banter on public men and events. His plots,instead of being repetitions of mythological story, were wittyburlesques of the serious affairs of the time. Instead of hav-ing the chorus comment on tlie action as developed in theplay, he caused it to ad
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