Knights
By: Aristophanes ; translated by Kenneth McLeish
Contributors: Aristophanes; McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: '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.
Notes: Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1998.