Dr. Shorey Discussed Aristophanes

Dr. Paul Shorey '78, Ph.D., LL.D., professor of Greek at the University of Chicago, delivered the second of the Lane lectures on "Life and Letters at Athens" last evening. He spoke on the subject "Aristophanes" and gave a general description of the various writers and leaders of that period of Greek culture.

Dr. Shorey showed how the Attic comedies of Aristophanes were happy thoughts suddenly conceived, and it is generally possible to pick out the line which shows the writer's inspiration. Emphasis should be placed on the resemblances and not the differences between that age and the present. That period had the same questions of courts, of vital social conditions, and to a large extent it had the same customs.