Knight. The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual evidence.[1] This list is based on Alan Sommerstein's translation.[2]
Written by
Aristophanes
Chorus
knights
Characters
Demosthenes a slave of Demos
Nicias another slave of Demos
Agoracritus a sausage seller
Paphlagonian (Cleon) a slave and steward of Demos
Demos an elderly Athenian
Silent roles
The Peacetreaties two girls
Several slaves
Setting
Outside Demos' house near the Pnyx in Athens
The Knights (Ancient Greek: ἹππεῖςHippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist's early plays. It is unique, however, in the relatively small number of its characters, and this was due to its vitriolic preoccupation with one man, the pro-war populist Cleon. Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians (426 BC), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians (425 BC), and it was in The Knights (424 BC) that his revenge was exacted. The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BC.
^Aristophanes:Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds Alan Sommerstein, Penguin Classics 1973, page 37
^Aristophanes: Birds and Other Plays by D. Barrett and A. Sommerstein (eds), Penguin Classics 1978
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