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Aristophanes: Cavalry (Hardcover)
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Aristophanes: Cavalry (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
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Offering for the first time a student introduction to
Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an
essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of
Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into
demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are
subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever
before. Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play
Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It
targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence
since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious
victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks
Cleon’s popularity with the masses, but also criticises the
democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and
political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of
escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more
popular Cleon. And who better to be more foul-mouthed, depraved and
shameless than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in
the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional
Athenian values?
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