After a nonsense-speaking herald with a giant eye
In this play, an upset ambassador remarks how he sought out a king in vain because he was off taking a shit in the Golden Hills for eight months. The protagonist of this play sets up a trading post outside his house, where he packs the sycophant Nicarchus away in hay and trades him to a Boeotian for some eels. The protagonist of this play lives next door to the playwright Euripides, from whom he borrows a beggar's costume to give an impassioned speech, causing the title characters to erupt into violence that is eventually stopped by the general Lamachus. After a nonsense-speaking herald with a giant eye (*) appears on the Pnyx and openly insults the Athenians, the protagonist is accosted by several unhelpful Thracians who steal his bag of garlic. Its protagonist holds a basket of coal hostage to defend himself from the war-loving title characters, who attempt to stone him to death for securing peace with Sparta through the machinations of the immortal Amphitheus. For 10 points, name this Aristophanes play about the war-weary Dikaiopolis, named for the unruly inhabitants of the largest deme of Athens.
In this play, an upset ambassador remarks how he sought out a king in vain because he was off taking a shit in the Golden Hills for eight months.
The Acharnians