The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Acharnæ

ACHARNÆ, a-kar′nē, a large town of Attica, where the Thirty Tyrants (q. v.) encamped when they marched against Thrasybulus; and where the Lacedæmonians, under their king Archidamus, pitched their tents when they made an irruption into Attica at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. Aristophanes, in his comedy ‘The Acharnians’ – where a citizen of the place, sick of war, ravage and the stoppage of trade, makes a treaty of peace with the Lacedæmonians on his own account – represents the inhabitants as charcoal-makers; and other comic writers stigmatize them as rough and boorish.