The trouble in this play begins when the writings from the sacred oracle are stolen.
The trouble in this play begins when the writings from the sacred oracle are stolen. The climax occurs during a heated argument between two servants, as one threatens to turn the other into a meatball, the other threatens to twitch the lashes off the other's eyes. The slaves' owner, Demus, owns Nicias and Demosthenes, but favors the hypocritical Paphlagonian, yet by the end the roles are reversed as Agoracritus, the Sausage-Seller, bests the fawning slave who is really meant to represent a tyrant of Athens. FTP, identify this play by Aristophanes, written to satirize Cleon.
The trouble in this play begins when the writings from the sacred oracle are stolen.
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