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Knights
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS
Knights ( Hippeis , Lat. Equites ),
Greek comedy by Aristophanes , produced at the Lenaea of 424 BC and awarded first prize. It was the first occasion on which Aristophanes produced one of his plays himself. The demagogue Cleon , the object of attack, was at the height of his fame after his victory at Pylos the previous year. The play is in some sense an allegory; the master of the house is called Dēmos (‘the people’), and his slaves Demosthenes and Nicias (the Athenian generals) are terrorized by a new slave, a Paphlagonian (i.e. Cleon; compare paphlazein , ‘to ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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