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The Knights

Author
Aristophanes
Series
Greek Comedy
Language
English
Length
64 pages
ISBN
9781911535843
Published
10 November 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play
  • Greece
  • mythology

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Description

Cleon as a sausage-seller’s rival. Aristophanes’ Knights is wartime Athens, a demagogue, and the demos flattered into a stupor. Political comedy with a cleaver: who owns the people, and who sells them. The Paphlagonian steward, the sausage-seller, Demos flattered like a child. Wartime comedy with a target you could name in the street. Corruption as a shouting match. The Paphlagonian steward versus a sausage-seller for the love of Demos, flattered like a child with a vote.

Author

Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

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