For background info on ancient Greek comedies see my original post on the topic:  https://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ THE KNIGHTS – In The Knights  Aristophanes pioneered a new sub-genre of Attic Old Comedy: the  Demagogue Comedy. The villain of this masterpiece of political satire was a figure called the Paphlagonian, who was patterned on Cleon, a notorious Athenian politician of the time period. […]

THE KNIGHTS (424 B.C.) ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY