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Walking away from the News

  • E. M. Blaiklock
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In the year 414 b.c. Aristophanes of Athens produced a play which has intrigued the world ever since. It is an uproarious comedy based upon the recapture by the birds, under the leadership of human beings, of the Kingdom of the Universe. The birds, in fact, had ruled it originally. The Olympians were usurpers.

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page 98 note 1 A lecture given to the Classical Association of Otago at Dunedin, New Zealand, November 1949.

page 98 note 2 Ancient Greek Literature, p. 286.

page 98 note 3 Toynbee's phrase (Study of History, vi. 348).

page 99 note 1 Birds 185–6 (Rogers).

page 99 note 2 Livy, xliv. 22. 8.

page 100 note 1 History of Greece 2, p. 471.

page 100 note 2 Acts xvii. 22 (A.V.).

page 101 note 1 δεισιδαιμονέστεροι

page 101 note 2 Birds 903–10 (Rogers).

page 101 note 3 Ibid. 959–91.

page 102 note 1 Ibid. 992–1020.

page 105 note 1 Hipp. 732–4 (Murray).

page 105 note 2 Psalm lv. 6 (Moffatt).

page 106 note 1 Brave New World, p. 283.

page 106 note 2 Matt. vi. 26.

page 106 note 3 Birds 155–61.

page 107 note 1 Phaedrus 230 d–e.

page 107 note 2 ad Fam. ii. 12. 2.

page 107 note 3 DrLogre, B. J., L'Anxiété de Lucrèce (Paris, 1946).

page 109 note 1 Birds 36–45.

page 109 note 2 Ibid. 209–22.

page 110 note 1 Ibid. 297–304.

page 110 note 2 Ibid. 1763–5.

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Greece & Rome
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