Events Tagged: "satire"

Aristophanes' Knights wins first prize - savage satire of demagogue Cleon during wartime

William IX returns from disastrous crusade - writes bawdy and satirical songs, invents 'fin'amor' (refined love) tradition

Voltaire's Candide: 'If this is best of all possible worlds, what are others?' - mocks philosophical optimism

Franklin's 'Savages' speech - argues Native Americans more civilized than Europeans