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Updated: May 29, 2025
And Aristophanes testifies to his lasting popularity when he shows little Tomides with a bad grouch over seeing a play by Theognis, when he had gone to the theater "expecting Aeschylus"; and when he shows Aeschylus and Euripides winning, because his poetry had died with him, and so he had it there for a weapon whereas Aeschylus's was still alive and on earth.
That, despite Mr. Whistler and the Ten O'Clock seems really to have been the kind of thing that happened in Athens. Tomides was there, with his companions little Tomides, the mender of bad soles and intoxicated by the grand poetry; understanding it, and never finding it tedious; poetry they had had no opportunity to study in advance, they understood and appreciated wildly at first hearing.
"Tush!" said they, "the Greek Soul! he was a Greek as we are!".... And so Tomides, Dickaion and Harryotatos, Athenian tinkers and cobblers, go swaggering back to their shops, and dream grand racial dreams. For this is a much more impressionable people than the English; any wind from the Spirit blows in upon their minds quickly and easily.
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