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Aristophanes' Political Vision in "The Knights"


Essay, 2014

3 Pages, Grade: 1


Abstract or Introduction

In The Knights Aristophanes mocks his adversary Cleon and comments on the phenomenon of demagoguery in democratic Athens. The play, first produced in 424 B.C., entrusts a sausage-seller to rival the Paphlagonian, a thinly veiled Cleon, in flattering and gaining the approval of the demos.1 A thorough examination of the comedy serves to demonstrate that Aristophanes attacks not democracy itself but unscrupulous demagogues like Cleon and Hyperbolus as well as the tendency of the Athenian demos to intellectual laziness, which allows the practitioners of flattery to bribe the people with their own money.

Details

Title
Aristophanes' Political Vision in "The Knights"
Course
Thucydides
Grade
1
Author
Year
2014
Pages
3
Catalog Number
V286184
ISBN (eBook)
9783656863564
ISBN (Book)
9783656863571
File size
434 KB
Language
English
Notes
Corrected and improved, December 2014
Keywords
Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesischer Krieg, Aristophanes, Ritter, Knights, Politics, Athens, Demagoguery, Demagogie, Democracy, Demokratie, Athenian
Quote paper
Moritz Mücke (Author), 2014, Aristophanes' Political Vision in "The Knights", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/286184

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