Comedy · 1924

The Knights

A comedy first produced at Athens in 424 BC

by Aristophanes

Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924)

Two harassed slaves of old Demus, the Athenian people, plot to topple their fellow slave Paphlagon, a thinly veiled Cleon, by pitting against him a Sausage-seller who is even coarser, louder and more shameless than he.

Contents · 8 parts

• Persons of the Play6 lines
• Lines 1–217about 260 lines
• Lines 218–401about 290 lines
• Lines 402–608about 330 lines
• Lines 609–789about 230 lines
• Lines 790–998about 330 lines
• Lines 999–1203about 220 lines
• Lines 1204–1408about 270 lines

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