Associates of Cleon and Playwrights Mocked in 'Peace'
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- Associates of Cleon and Playwrights in 'Peace'
- Cleonymus
- Peace's best friend because he's a 'castaway'
- Joke, similarity of words between 'one who throws something away' and 'a child substituted for another'
- Notorious glutton
- Peace's best friend because he's a 'castaway'
- Hyperbolus
- "**** of the walk there on the Pnyx"
- Exiled by Ostracism in 417/416
- Assasinated in 411
- Cleon's successor as the most influential speaker in the Assembly
- Political ally of Cleon
- Frequently ridiculed by comic poets
- "rotten leader"
- temporary wrap
- lamp-seller
- Sophocles
- Compared with Simonides
- High charge for his plays
- Complete hyperbole, Sophocles wouldn't do this
- Perhaps being a large part in the remuneration of tragic poets which comedic ones couldn't get.
- Remurnation: money paid for work or for a service
- Compared with Simonides
- Cratinus
- Comic poet
- Not actually dead by 421BC
- referred to in Knights as being a drunkard, he is now dead, of a broken heart because the Spartans smashed so many wine jars when they invaded
- Cleonymus
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