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Aristophanes' comedy Knights (Greek: Hippeîs) took the prize at the Lenaia festival in 424 BCE. The play is above all else an unbridled attack on Cleon, who was one of the most important political figures in Athens in the late 420s BCE and who was a personal enemy of the poet. Two years earlier, Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for "slandering Athens" (in his play "The Babylonians"). Aristophanes was convicted of the charge. "Knights" is also a strident attack on the politics of the day,...
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