The Clouds
Aristophanes
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English, PA, Aristophanes -- Translations into English, Classical literature, Comedies, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Drama, I
Downloads: 496
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English, PA, Aristophanes -- Translations into English, Classical literature, Comedies, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Drama, I
Downloads: 496
The Clouds stands as the most controversial of Aristophanes' plays. For in this slashing attack on sophism, Socrates, revered by later centuries as philosopher and martyr, is singled out and portrayed as a venial trickster, a ludicrous and lamentable purveyor of intellectual corruption.
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