
Clouds
by Aristophanes
'Clouds' Summary
Strepsiades, an Athenian, is heavily in debt and decides to attend Socrates's Thinking Shop to learn how to argue his way out of paying his creditors. Socrates, however, is a cunning and manipulative sophist who teaches Strepsiades' son, Pheidippides, how to use rhetoric to justify his immoral behavior. In the end, Pheidippides uses his newfound skills to beat his father and run away from home. Clouds is a satirical comedy that critiques the new ideas and values that were emerging in Athens at the time, and it celebrates the traditional values of the old guard.Book Details
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Aristophanes son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete....
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