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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. paladin999 was excellentBy Paul J Giordanopaladin999 the shipper was excellent.As for the book ---if you are going to read the Knights; read this translation with the notes and the Greek on the facing page.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Aristophanes has Cleon replaced by a sausage seller . . .By Lawrance Bernabo"The Knights;" produced in 424 B.C.; is clearly an all-out attack on Cleon; the leader of Athens after the death of Pericles. As related by Thucydides; earlier that year Cleon had induced the Spartans to propose peace. Consequently; Aristophanes opens the comedy with two slaves of the crotchety old Demos ("the people of Athens") dressed up to resemble the generals Demosthenes and Nicias. The two slaves complain about how everyone is picking on Paphlagon; a leather seller who is the favorite of Demos and clearly intended to be Cleon. The oracles tell that Paphlagon is going to be replaced by a sausage seller named Agoracritus."The Knights" is a second-tier comedy by Aristophanes because it is devoted entirely to making fun of Cleon. Consequently; Aristophanes makes his point early on and by the time Agoracritus the sausage seller beats Cleon at this own game; the comic dramatist is beating a dead horse all the way into the ground. This comedy always struck me as being like a SNL skit that lasts the entire show. In the end Demos; rejuvenated by being stewed in a plot by Agoracritus; takes control and declares he will abolish all innovations and restore the old traditions.The legend is that the mask makers of Athens; fearing reprisals from Cleon; refused to make a mask of the Athenian leader and that Aristophanes played the part himself. Of course; Cleon would have been in the audience watching the play at the festival that year; but unlike what happened when Socrates stood throughout the production of "The Clouds;" we know nothing of Cleons response aside from the fact that Aristophanes survived to write more comedies.
