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Aristophanes
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Aristophanes : unknown
'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
Aristophanes : Ecclesiazusae
'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Aristophanes : The Birds
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Aristophanes : Plutus
'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Aristophanes : Lysistratae
'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Aristophanes : [unknown]
'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book
Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'Read some of "Clouds".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'
