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OF THE SECOND VOLUME
THE WASPS Introduction Text And Notes
THE BIRDS Introduction Text And Notes
THE FROGS Introduction Text And Notes
THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE Introduction Text And Notes
THE ECCLESIAZUSAE Introduction Text And Notes
PLUTUS Introduction Text And Notes
INDEX
THE WASPS
INTRODUCTION
"This Comedy, which was produced by its Author the year after the performance of 'The Clouds,' may be taken as in some sort a companion picture to that piece. Here the satire is directed against the passion of the Athenians for the excitement of the law-courts, as in the former its object was the new philosophy. And as the younger generation--the modern school of thought--were there the subjects of the caricature, so here the older citizens, who took their seats in court as jurymen day by day, to the neglect of their private affairs and the encouragement of a litigious disposition, appear in their turn in the mirror which the satirist holds up."
There are only two characters of any importance to the action--Philocleon and his son Bdelycleon . The plot is soon told. Philocleon is a bigoted devotee of the malady of litigiousness so typical of his countrymen and an enthusiastic attendant at the Courts in his capacity of 'dicast' or juryman. Bdelycleon endeavours to persuade his father by every means in his power to change this unsatisfactory manner of life for something nobler and more profitable; but all in vain. As a last resource he keeps his father a prisoner indoors, so that he cannot attend the tribunals.
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