Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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* Specifically, the word used by Herodotus is prospassaleusantes: ‘fastened with pins’.

* The plays staged in honour of the Lenaia were moved there two or three decades before Aristophanes’ debut.

* Assuming, that is, that the plague which ravages Thebes in the play is an echo of the plague that had devastated Athens in 430 BC. No source specifically gives us the play’s date.

* This, it has justly been observed, was almost certainly ‘a piece of vindictive gossip’ (Fortenbaugh and Schütrumpf, p. 315).

† The first use of the word is traditionally ascribed to Pythagoras, but in fact it seems to have originated with Plato.