num_pages: 232
description: In the first play he produced on his own behalf, Aristophanes launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee that a bad leader could be displaced by a worse. Text with facing translation, commentary and notes.
language: English
title: Knights
titlecomplete: Knights (Classical Texts)
characters: Cleon
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Greece, Drama, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Ancient, Classics
ratings_count: 586
places: Greece
awards: name: Lenaea Festival Prize
publisher: Liverpool University Press