| Summary |
'Knights' is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War, focusing on Paphlagonian, a comic monstrosity responsible for almost everything that's wrong with the world, and under the guise of whom Aristophanes was targeting the pro-war populist Cleon, who had previously brought a slander prosecution against the playwright. The play relies heavily on allegory and won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BC. |
| General note | Translated from the Ancient Greek. |
| General note | Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1998. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# |
10.5040/9781408190845.00000007 |
