Note 494 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
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The older wedding in Greece was of the same kind. See Iliad, XVIII. 491 ff.; K. O. Müller, Griech. Lit., p. 34. See too the burlesque at the end of Aristophanes’s Birds, and H. W. Smythe, Greek Melic Poets, p. cxx.