Excerpt from The Clouds of Aristophanes: With Notes The comedy of The Knights was brought upon the stage B. C. 424. The corruptions of the ecclesia are exposed in this piece, and the character of Cleon, who appears as one of the persons of the drama, is drawn with wonderful power. He is again held up to ridicule in The Wasps (exhibited B. C. A drama which gives a masterly and most amusing picture of the Athenian courts, and the pas sion of the peoplei for litigation. These are the principal passages in the warfare between the poet and the dema gogue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.