* The theater was probably built under Hieron I (478-67), and rebuilt under Hieron II (270-16). Much of it survives; and many ancient Greek dramas have been staged in it in our century.

* Cf. Lucretius’ powerful description of this plague in De Rerum Natura, vi, 1138-1286.

* The term strategos was applied to naval as well as military commanders.

* Critias and Alcibiades had left the tutelage of Socrates early in his career as a teacher, not liking the restraints which he preached to them.³⁴

* Croiset believed that the real cause of the indictment was the hostility of the Attic peasantry to anyone who cast doubt upon the state gods. One of the chief markets for cattle was provided by the pious who bought the animals to offer in sacrifice; any decrease in faith would lessen this market. Aristophanes, in this interpretation, was the mouthpiece of these peasants, before whom his plays, if successful, would be repeated.³⁶

* Grote⁵⁴ doubts them, and they are rendered dubious by the efforts of Plato and Xenophon to defend Socrates’ reputation. But these accounts were generally accepted in antiquity (e.g., by Tertullian and Augustine⁵⁵), and accord admirably with the habits of the Athenians.