Excerpt from The Wasps The Wasps gave to Racine the idea of Les Plaideurs, and several whole scenes may be compared with advantage. On the details of Athenian law, with which the play abounds, Schoemann, Richter in his long and elaborate Prolegomena, and the Dictionary of Antiquities, furnish ample information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.