The Knights
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers in classics studying ancient Greek comedy and Aristophanes
- Learners of Dutch who want to practice reading through literary texts
- Readers interested in the history of translation into lesser-taught European languages and in public-domain eBooks
Not a good fit for
- General readers who read only Chinese and want an easy grasp of the plot
- Readers expecting modern annotation, introductions, and scholarly appendices
Reading tips
- Read a Chinese or English plot summary of The Knights first, then approach the Dutch text to lower the barrier to understanding.
- Read scene by scene alongside an English translation, paying special attention to how the choral odes and political satire are translated.
- Excerpt unfamiliar Athenian political terms separately and verify them with classics reference works.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Aristophanes (c. 446 BCE–c. 385 BCE) was a comic poet of ancient Athens and the foremost representative of Old Comedy. Public sources on his life are limited, and later readers have come to know his work chiefly through his plays. Tradition holds that he wrote about forty comedies, of which eleven survive, including The Clouds, The Acharnians, The Birds and Lysistrata; the library holds seventeen of his works. His plays often take Athenian political and social life as their subject, using exaggerated plots and fantastic invention to mount sharp satire, and their witty, imaginative language had a profound influence on the later development of European comedy.
