In many respects The Knights may be reckoned the great Comedians masterpiece; the direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon; with its scathing satire and tremendous invective; being one of the most vigorous and startling things in literature. Already in The Acharnians he had threatened to "cut up Cleon the Tanner into shoe-leather for the Knights;" and he now proceeds to carry his menace into execution; "concentrating the whole force of his wit in the most unscrupulous and merciless fashion against his personal enemy."mdash;From the introduction to lsquo;The Knightsrsquo; of Aristophanes.
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