He had prosecuted Aristophanes for an earlier play, The Babylonians, but an attempt at political censorship during a time of war was not necessarily motivated by personal malice or ambition on Cleon's part-the play depicted the cities of the Athenian League as slaves grinding at a mill and it had been performed at the City Dionysia in the presence of foreigners.

As such, Nicias became the rival of Cleon's popular or democratic party.

Cleon's and Vermin's former boss, he became increasingly paranoid and tried to set them up to be killed in a botched drug deal, causing Cleon to retaliate and found The Warriors, who became The Destroyers ' main rivals.

In response to the pleadings of a number of Athenian citizens, Cleon's decree to destroy the population of Mytilene is reversed with only the ringleaders of the Mytilenean revolt being executed.

Hari then meets reporter Chetter Hummin, who convinces him that Cleon's first minister Eto Demerzel is attempting to capture him, and that it is therefore imperative for Hari to escape and to try to make psychohistory practical.

The finale reveals that " Hummin " is actually Cleon's first minister Eto Demerzel, who we later learn is in fact the robot R. Daneel Olivaw.

Cleon's suspicions meanwhile have been aroused and he rushes from the house in search of trouble.

Demos is won over by these arguments and he spurns Cleon's wheedling appeals for sympathy.

Cleon's political career was founded on his opposition to the cautious war strategy of Pericles and its highpoint came with the Athenian victory at Sphacteria, for which he was feted and honoured by the majority of his fellow citizens.

Cleon's entitlement to these honours is continually mocked by Aristophanes in The Knights and possibly Cleon was sitting in the front row during the performance.

* Cycloborus: A mountain torrent in Attica, it is the image of Cleon's voice here ( line 137 ) and also in The Acharnians.

* Hippias: The tyrant of Athens, whose wife Myrsina is here pronounced Byrsina (' made of leather ') because one of their foreign mercenaries is said to be Cleon's father ( line 449 ), who made his fortune trading in leather.

Cleon's father, Cleaenetus, is mentioned by name ( line 574 ) but there is no mention of his relationship with Paphlagonian.

Moreover he says he made a Spartan cake in Pylos that was later pilfered by Paphlagonian ( lines 54-7 ) and this seems to be a reference to Cleon's success in taking the lion's share of the credit for the victory at Sphacteria.

Cleon's ruling principles were an inveterate hatred of the nobility, and an equal hatred of Sparta.

Much of the credit was probably due to the military skill of his colleague Demosthenes ( not the orator ); but it must be admitted that it was due to Cleon's determination that the Ecclesia sent out the additional force which was needed.

As Hummin, he convinces Seldon that Cleon's first minister Eto Demerzel is pursuing him and that it is imperative for Hari to escape and to try making psychohistory practical.

Beginning during the latter years of the reign of Emperor Cleon I, Seldon's work brings him into the world of galactic politics, and takes him to the height of Imperial power as Cleon's First Minister, after the mysterious disappearance of his previous First Minister, Eto Demerzel ( whom Seldon knows as R. Daneel Olivaw ).

Cleon's terms, Donald Kagan has argued, represented a recognition that the Athenians had little to gain from a peace which surrendered the advantage they had just won without impairing the Spartans ' ability to make war, while they might secure far better terms in the future by pressing their advantage.

Modern commentators suspect that Thucydides and Aristophanes exaggerated the vileness of Cleon's real character.

* Acestor Sacas: A tragic poet of foreign birth and a frequent target of comic poets, he is mentioned in line 1221 as the father of one of Cleon's circle.

* Hyperbolus: A populist and eventually Cleon's successor, he is named in line 1007 as an example of someone who cynically manipulates juries.

Arguably, the most significant event of Cleon's rule occurred in 12, 020 GE, when the young mathematician Hari Seldon came to Trantor and revealed that psychohistory was a theoretical possibility.

The chaotic upset which followed Cleon's assassination saw the rise of a military junta and Hari Seldon's retirement from overt politics.

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