Leo Strauss (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: Strauss, Leo. “The Other Plays: The Acharnians.” In Socrates and Aristophanes, pp. 57-79. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966.
[In the following essay, Strauss offers a detailed analysis of the Acharnians.]
The Acharnians begins, like the Clouds, with a soliloquy by an oldish rustic who gives vent to his discomfort; but in the Acharnians the soliloquy takes place not indoors but in public, and it concerns matters that are not merely private but also public. Regarding...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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