An analysis of Aristophanes' comedy 'The Wasps.' ...

Notes on the Wasps of Aristophanes, probably put on in 422 B.C. In 422 B.C. Aristophanes was a well known comic poet and had won first prize a number of times in the annual poetic contest. In several of the plays he had made savage attacks on Cleonm for example, his Knights . At this point Cleon was at the height of his power as the demagogic leader of the 'popular' party, and there is some ...