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| And tell me this: of all the roads you know, / Which is the quickest way to get to Hades? / I want one not too warm, nor yet too cold. |
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| c.448 B.C.–c.388 B.C., Greek playwright, Athenian comic poet, greatest of the ancient writers of comedy. His plays, the only full extant samples of the Greek Old Comedy, mix political, social, and literary satire.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:   r´´ -st f´ -n z from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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Dionysus descends into the underworld, where he judges a contest between Euripides and Æschylus. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 9.
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