Νέος Αριστοφάνης (New Aristophanes): Deliyannis Duels King Alexander

This Greek chromolithograph depicts Prime Minister Theodoros Deliyannis mounted on a horse, jousting against King Alexander I of Battenberg, who rides a pig. A mustachioed figure with a child on his shoulder (Deliyannis's political faction) wields a broom while a crowned figure on the right protests wildly. The print belongs to the European tradition of political satire descending from Gillray and Rowlandson—using exaggerated animal forms, heraldic devices, and grotesque bodily distortion to mock state conflicts. The comparison to Aristophanes (ancient Greek comic dramatist) signals this as high-minded satire on contemporary constitutional crisis. Chromolithography allowed vivid color reproduction of such polemical prints, which circulated widely in nineteenth-century political culture.