Word: pollio
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with great skill has arranged them to speak for themselves. The conclusions which he then draws are, in the light of the exhuastive and absolutely complete collection of facts, clearly inevitable. The plays of Aristophanes, at all events, could not have been produced upon the stage described by Vitruvius Pollio in his work on architecture. Thus Professor White byliterary methods has obtained the same results as Dr. Dorpfeld from his architectural investigations in the ruins of Greek theatres of the period of Aristophanic comedy...