Project Gutenberg 2011-10-23 Public domain in the USA. 227 Aristophanes -450 -388 Αριστοφάνης Ἀριστοφάνης Aristófanes Aristofanes Muller, H. C. (Hendrik Clemens) 1855 Muller, Hendrik Clemens De Ridders Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights Wikipedia page about this book: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridders_(toneelstuk) Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg. "De Ridders" by Aristophanes is a comedic play written in the early 5th century BC. The play is a satire that targets Kleon, a powerful political figure in Athens, depicting him as a brutish Paphlagonian slave in the household of the character Demos, who represents the Athenian people. The story unfolds as various characters, including a sausage vendor, engage in a battle of wits and insults aimed at displacing Kleon from his position of influence over Demos. The opening of the play introduces the dire situation of Demos, who has been manipulated by the Paphlagonian, emphasizing the discontent among the slaves who suffer under his authority. Two slaves express their discomfort about their new master, Kléon, and concoct a plan to seek help from Agorákritos, a sausage vendor, to save them. The arrival of the sausage vendor and the ensuing banter establishes the play’s comedic tone, highlighting the ridiculousness of Athenian politics and defeating a corrupt politician through wits and humor. As Demos takes his seat on the Pnyx, the scene sets the stage for a contest between Kléon and the sausage vendor, promising humorous social commentary and political satire to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/37828/37828-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 81.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. nl Comedy plays Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into Dutch PA Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 257232 2025-06-15T11:33:24.970908 text/html 254630 2011-10-23T13:12:44 text/html; charset=us-ascii 197796 2011-10-23T13:12:46 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 212764 2025-06-15T11:33:34.467900 application/epub+zip 217085 2025-06-15T11:33:27.377922 application/epub+zip 140082 2025-06-15T11:33:26.225911 application/epub+zip 388277 2025-06-15T11:33:38.721852 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 437138 2025-06-15T11:33:33.373892 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306166 2022-09-17T10:07:22.403227 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 143042 2025-06-15T11:33:23.215939 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 142453 2011-10-23T13:12:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 49787 2011-10-23T13:12:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19704 2025-06-15T11:33:38.894844 application/rdf+xml 22667 2025-06-15T11:33:26.369917 image/jpeg 3181 2025-06-15T11:33:26.298901 image/jpeg 198818 2025-06-15T11:33:25.007924 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia