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Is the humour of Knights entirely dependant on Aristophanes's hostility to Cleon?
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David Westmoreland Is the humour of Knights entirely dependant on Aristophanes's hostility to Cleon? In my opinion, although the play knights are primarily an attack on Cleon, it is not entirely dependant on the comedy that can be derived from Aristophane's hostility towards him. It is obvious that 'Knights' is primarily an attack on Cleon, because throughout the play Aristophanes continues to mock him. He portrays him as a 'tanner' with a 'voice like an overloaded sewer'. He also tries to drill home some factual political messages as well about Cleon. He claims that Cleon stole the idea of the attack upon Pylos, from Demosthenes. 'Why only the other day I'd baked a lovely Spartan cake down in Pylos, and round he sneaks and grabs it and serves it up my cake as if it was all his work.'. Of course, Aristophanes never actually says this without the protection of the...
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