The Acharnians In Plain and Simple English (Digital Download)

  Read The Acharnians In Plain and Simple English Now!     Do you need to understand The Acharnians and want something more interactive? Try our free app, SwipeSpeare! Excerpt From The Acharnians In Plain and Simple English SCENE: The Athenian Ecclesia on Pnyx; afterwards Dicaeopolis’ house in the countryDICAEOPOLIS (alone)What cares have not gnawed at my heart and how few have been the pleasures in my life! Four, to be exact, while my troubles have been as countless as the grains of sand on the shore!  Let me see! of what value to me have been these few pleasures? Ah! I remember that I was delighted in soul when Cleon had to disgorge those five talents; I was in ecstasy and I love the Knights for this deed; 'it is an honour to Greece.' But the day when I was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus, what tragic despair it caused me when the herald called, "Theognis, introduce your Chorus!" Just imagine how this blow struck straight at my hea