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 438 INDEX. Aristophanes, 177; place of his birth, 178, time of this birth, 180; his Banqueters, ib.; Babylonians, 181; Acharnians, 182; Knights, t6.; Clouds, 183 — 185; Wasps, 185 ; Peace, 186; Amphiaraus, ib. ; Birds, ib.; Lysistrata, 188; Thesmophoriazuste, 189 ; Frogs, ib ; Ecclesiazusae, 191 ; Plutus, 192; u^olosicon, 193, note 4; Cocalus, 193; number of his plays, 193; buf- foonery and licentiousness, 194; excel- lences, 195 Aristotle, his Poetic, 318; its antagonism to Plato, 325 ; his assertion that the early drama was extemporaneous, how explain- ed, 39 ; his etymology of Kw/xipSia incor- rect, 70; his definition of Tragedy, 325 Art and Idolatry, 4 Artemis TavpoTrdXr}, 16 Asinius PoUio, 310 Aspen dus, theatre at, 220 Astarte, 13 Atellane Fables, 307 Attic Crases, 375 sqq. Attic dialect in the dramatists, 371 Attius, 309 Audience, theatric, 270; its number, 211; behaviour, 272 Augment, Attic, 371 AvXala, 240 B. Baal-Peor, 18 Bacchic choruses three in number, 35 Bacchus 'Qfxo(pd-yos, 1 7 TavpoK€po}$, 1 7 Bacchus, early worship of in Attica, 9, 5 3 Bacchus, oriental origin of his worship, 1 2 Bacchus, his pedigree, 12 Bernays, 326 Bovine deities, 15 BovXevTiKdv, 228 Brauronia, 56 BpovTetop, 241 Bull, connected with the Dithyramb, 38 Buskin, introduced by JEschylus, 99 C. Cacus, 16 Caesura in the Senarius, 380, note Carcinus, the tragedian, 161 Catastrophe, 333 Chasremon, 162 Characters, which best for tragedy, 333 Charonic ladder, 229 Chionides, the comedian, 167 XXa/xOs, 257 Choerilus, the tragedian, 91 Choragi, their office and how chosen, 214, their rivalry, 218; successful, honours of, 218 Choragic expenses, 214 Xopbv didovai, 215, note 5 Chorus, origin of, 26; etymology of the word, ib. note i ; properly limited to a fixed dancing-place, and so distinguished from the conus, 29 ; Tragic, Comic, num- ber of, 243 Christus Patiens, 163 Chronology of the Greek Drama, 204 — 209 Cleisthenes of Sicy on, 4 1 Cleon, 182 Clepsydra, used to portion out the time of a dramatic representation, 219 Comedy, etymology of, 71, 211; when established at Athens, and why, 76 Comedy, the Old, its origin and nature, 76 ; prohibited for a time, 168; number of plays, 167; its political meaning, 78 Comedy, the Middle, how different from the Old, 78; number of its pieces, 196; difficult to distinguish between its writers and those of the Old Comedy, 78 Comedy, the New, its origin and nature, 80 ; circle of its characters, 8 1 Comic trimeter, 379 Comus distinguished from the chorus, 29 Concurrences of short syllables, 399 CondaUum of Plautus, 260 Costume, 252 sqq. ; on the modern stage, 266 Crane, theatric machine so called, 241 Crases, Attic, 375 sqq. Crates, the comedian, 1 70 Cratinus, the comedian, 168 Cretic termination, 396 Critias, 163 Cyclic chorus the same as the Dithyrambic, 36 Cyrenaic picture, 245