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Aristophanes: Clouds

Aristophanes: Clouds

Aristophanes

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1453683941
ISBN13: 9781453683941
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 2 2010
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. The Clouds was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420-417 BC and thereafter it was circulated in manuscript form. The Clouds can be considered not only the world's first extant 'comedy of ideas' but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates ever since its mention in Plato's Apology as a factor contributing to the old man's trial and execution. The most controversial of Aristophanes' plays, The Clouds it is a brilliant caricature of the philosopher Socrates, seen as a wily sophist who teaches men to cheat through cunning argument.

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