Excerpt from P. Terenti Afri Andria 23. The period of New Comedy covers nearly a century, from 336 to 250 b.c., a period when the Athenians had quite lost their old-time valor and patriotic spirit, though they were still a shrewd, wide-awake, and intellectual peo ple. The love of pleasure was the main principle of life; the Epicurean philosophy, so easily misunderstood and mis applied, was fashionable; a pagan cynicism and unbelief were prevalent; and all of these phases of life are reflected in the literature Of the ...
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Excerpt from P. Terenti Afri Andria 23. The period of New Comedy covers nearly a century, from 336 to 250 b.c., a period when the Athenians had quite lost their old-time valor and patriotic spirit, though they were still a shrewd, wide-awake, and intellectual peo ple. The love of pleasure was the main principle of life; the Epicurean philosophy, so easily misunderstood and mis applied, was fashionable; a pagan cynicism and unbelief were prevalent; and all of these phases of life are reflected in the literature Of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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