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Persons of the Play

by Aristophanes c. 446 – c. 386 BC

Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924)


EUELPIDES, an Athenian
PEISTHETAERUS, his companion
PLOVER-PAGE, servant of the Hoopoe
HOOPOE (Tereus), a king turned bird
CHORUS of Birds
PRIEST
POET
ORACLE-MONGER
METON, a geometer
COMMISSIONER
STATUTE-SELLER
SIRE-STRIKER
CINESIAS, a dithyrambic poet
SYCOPHANT, an informer
PROMETHEUS
POSEIDON
TRIBALLIAN
HERACLES
MESSENGERS
GUARD
IRIS
HERALD
SERVANT of Peisthetaerus

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Aristophanes. The Birds, Persons of the Play. Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/aristophanes-birds-rogers/0/.

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Aristophanes. The Birds, Persons of the Play. Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/aristophanes-birds-rogers/0/.

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