Exercitationes criticæ in scholia ad Aristophanis Acharnenses - Boutens, Pieter Cornelis (Haarlem Enschedé, 1899)
Pieter Cornelis Boutens (1870-1943) was a Dutch poet, classicist, and mystic. After finishing the Gymnasium Middelburg, he began to study classical languages in 1890 at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1899 on a study of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes.
The Acharnians or Acharnians is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BC on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival. Along with the other surviving plays of Aristophanes, The Acharnians is one of the few – and oldest – surviving examples of a highly satirical genre of drama known as Old Comedy.
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Keywords: Aristophanes -- c. 446-c. 386 BC; 19th Century (1801-1900); Play (theater); Linguistics; Haarlem (Netherlands)