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Average customer rating: Aristophanes attacks Socrates the sophist as a Sophist

Aristophanes' Clouds Translated With Notes and Introduction (Focus Classical Library) Jeffery Henderson Manufacturer: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Greek & Roman | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Classics | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Movements & Periods | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Arthurian Romance | Beat Generation | General | Gothic Revival | Medieval | Modernism | Postmodernism | Renaissance | Romanticism | Surrealism | Victorian Medieval | Classics | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Classics | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Medieval | Classics | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books General | Drama | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Greek & Roman | Drama | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Classics | General | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Similar Items: The Republic of Plato On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Satyricon (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I (The Complete Greek Tragedies) The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics) ASIN: 0941051242

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Aristophanes attacks Socrates the sophist as a Sophist.......2004-05-13

In this comedy Socrates is consulted by an old rogue, Strepsiades (sometimes translated as "Twisterson"), who is upset with the mountain of debts his playboy son Phidippides, who loves fast horses and fast living. Phidippides agrees to go to Socrates' school of logic where he can learn to make a wrong argument sound right. After graduation is able to use the system of "unjust logic" to outwit his father and kick him out of the family home. The Chorus of Clouds comments on the proceedings and in the end the Phrontisterion is burned to the ground by Strepsiades.

The flaw of the play is Aristophanes is trying to satirize the Sophists, who were popularizing a new philosophy that denied the possibility of ever reaching objective truth, he picked the wrong target. The Sophists were mostly teachers who were not native to Athens, such as Isocartes and Gorgias. "Sophist" basically meant teacher, so while Socrates was a "sophist" he was not a "Sophist." Twenty-four years later, when Socrates was condemned to death for "corrupting the youth of Athens," the only accuser he said he could name was a certain "comic poet." For contemporary audiences who are untutored in the traditions of classical Greek philosophy it is easy to see Socrates as the prototype for the absent-minded professor, but historically that is, of course, far from the truth. Ironically, even today, Socrates is still one of the few "sophists" that a contemporary audience would recognize by name if not by reputation.

The version of "The Clouds" that has passed down to us is not the original version, which was defeated by Cratinus' "Wine Flask" at a comedy competition during the Great Dionysia celebrations. We know this is a revised version because the Chorus complains about Aristophanes finishing third in that competition. However, critics assume it is essentially the same play, albeit a more polished version. Once you forgive Aristophanes for his unfair characterization of Socrates, "The Clouds" is a great comedy employing all of his standard tricks of the trade from fantasy and ribaldry to funny songs and obscene words.

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Monarch Notes: The Plays of Euripedes, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes William Walter Manufacturer: Monarch Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Greek & Roman | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0671005081

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Aristophanes' Lysistrata: The Birds, The Clouds, The Frogs (Cliffs Notes) W. John Campbell Manufacturer: Cliffs Notes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Greek & Roman | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Greek | Classics | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Book Notes | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books Study Guides | Reference | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Oedipus Trilogy (Cliffs Notes) Euripides' Electra and Medea (Cliffs Notes) Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides (Cliffs Notes) Greek Classics (Cliffs Notes) The Iliad (Cliffs Notes) ASIN: 0822007762

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The Plutus of Aristophanes (With Notes in Greek, Based on the Scholia) Manufacturer: Ginn & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NP9OS6

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The Plays of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes (Monarch Notes and Study Guides) William Walter Manufacturer: Monarch Notes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Drama | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: B000NKDUQI

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The Frogs, with Introduction and Notes ed. W. W. Merry ARISTOPHANES Manufacturer: Clarendon, Oxford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S6ZGBY

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The Knights of Aristophanes Aristophanes Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary Historical Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Historical Reproductions | Formats | Books ASIN: 1421203766 Release Date: 2002-02-26

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The eleven comedies: Literally & completely translated from the Greek tongue into English with translator's foreword, an introduction to each comedy & elucidatory notes Aristophanes Manufacturer: Horace Liveright ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008BLXXO

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