Comedy · 1924

The Acharnians

A comedy first produced at Athens in 425 BC

by Aristophanes

Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924)

When the Assembly will not make peace, the countryman Dicaeopolis makes a private treaty with Sparta, wins round the furious old men of Acharnae with a speech made in a beggar's rags borrowed from Euripides, and opens a market of his own, while the general Lamachus marches off to war and comes home wounded as Dicaeopolis sits down to feast.

Contents · 8 parts

• Persons of the Play7 lines
• Lines 1–202about 230 lines
• Lines 203–402about 230 lines
• Lines 402–593about 210 lines
• Lines 594–787about 220 lines
• Lines 788–998about 250 lines
• Lines 999–1141about 160 lines
• Lines 1142–123495 lines

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