Report Topics: Aristophanes' KNIGHTS

Illustration: The giant Enceladus falls in battle with the Olympians.

"Wine Drinking and Recovery: Euripides' Cyclops and Aristophanes' Knights" and "Magic Cooking in the Knights" pages 105-120.

In K. J. Reckford's Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy, vol. 1 (Univ. North Carolina, 1987). An entertaining Discussion of the two plays.

Deanna Pratt.

"Making Sense of Aristophanes' Knights"

Arethusa 23 (1990) 235-254. by L. J. Bennett and W. B. Tyrell. This is something that Stark (and every student) is bound to like. Stark Ligon

Aristophanes and the Poetry of Hate. Chapter 4 in The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Inertextual Parabasis, by Thomas K. Hubbard. pp. 60-87.

No play of Aristophanes so obsessively reiterates the same structural pattern of one-on-one confrontation between a pair of diehard antagonists: in Knights' figural allegory of the Paphlagon's struggle with the upstart Sausage seller we must see nothing less than Aristophanes' fantastic projection of his own verbal combat with Cleon.