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Democracy Critiqued - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Demos is the master of the knights
      - The remaining slaves find someone to out demagogue the demagogue
      - Paphlagon is a slave that takes credit for everyone's work
        
        Represents Cleon
      - Paphlagon attempts to bribe the knights
      - Paphlagon calls the knights the brethren of the three obels
      - To cure demos you have to boil him and return him to his intelligent youth
    - - Athenian people are mislead
      - Demagogues are the lowest of the low
      - Cleon abuses his power
      - Athenians know what demagogues are like
      - Leaders relu on rhetoric
      - Demagogues have no skill and are unintelligent and unqualified
      - The demos are bad tempered and easily fooled
      - Politicians try to appeal to people and use their power immorally
    - - Performed in 424
      - Performed at the Lenaea
  - - - Won 2nd place at City Dionysia
      - First performed in 421BC
    - - Criticising demagogues is public service
      - Demagogues are a negative force in Athens
  - - - Athenians keep changing their policies
      - Democracy is so weak even women could run it
      - Athenian people don't value the ekklesia they just want money
      - The assembly is incompetent as the demos are tricked into believing that women are men
      - Athenian leaders are of low quality
  - - - The 30 exiled oligarchs were brought back from exile after this play
  - - - Performed in 425
      - Performed at the Lenaea
    - - Athenians don't want to fight anymore
      - Ambassadors are corrupt and exploit the government
      - Ekklesia is not taken seriously
      - The councillors on the Boule are arrogant
      - Boule members are self-interested and not interested in peace
    - - Scythian archers used red rope to mark latecomers
      - Occurs on the Pnyx hill
      - No set seats
  - - - Jury members accuse Bdelycleon of being pro-Spartan after he criticises them
      - Jury tell philocleon to use rhetoric to win the fake trial
      - Bdelycleon - Cleon hater
      - Cleon is represented by a dog who acts as the prosecutor
      - Philocleon - Cleon lover who is obsessed with serving in juries
      - The defendants are kitchen objects
      - Philocleon is shocked when Bdelycleon wins as he doesn't realise that he was tricked by Bdelycleon's speech
      - Bdelycleon shows democracy is hard to overthrow as Philocleon doesn't want to accept the truth
    - - The demos are unaware they are being tricked and manipulated
      - To win cases, the demos are manipulated
      - Democracy is hard to overthrow
      - The legal system is corrupt
    - - 422BC at the Lenaea
- - - - The crew never learnt navigation (philosophy)
      - The true navigator is a philosopher king
      - The crew are uninterested in the good of the state
      - The crew resort to violence
      - The crew's only interested is gaining control
      - The crew represent those who engage in democracy
      - The demos are described as being unable to steer the ship as he is physically unimpressive
      - The shipowner represents the demos
      - The crew threaten the true navigator because he claims that navigation can be taught
      - Plato says that the crew would resort to violence and it was written after Socrates execution
    - - The animal trainer's main goal is to learn what the animal likes and therefore to manipulate it to do as it wants
      - The animal is likened to the demos
      - The animal trainer is likened to sophists