... poets themselves were "clever and wise". Drama was so important in classical Greece that the Dionysiac festivals continued even in wartime, albeit with a reduced number of plays and it was the City Dionysia, encompassing all Greek States, which halted war temporarily, rather the work of the politicians. The importance of peace was a recurring theme in Aristophanic comedy; it is mentioned in Acharnians (425BC) ... lather / For he mixes in ashes to make them go farther" and, more damningly, not being of pure Athenian birth - "when once translated from the Thracian". Special wrath, though,...

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