The satire in this, one of the best known of all Aristophanes' comedies, is directed against the new schools of philosophy, or perhaps we should rather say dialectic, which had lately been introduced, mostly from abroad, at Athens. The doctrines held up to ridicule are those of the 'Sophists'-such men as Thrasymachus from Chalcedon in Bithynia, Gorgias from Leontini in Sicily, Protagoras from Abdera in Thrace, and other foreign scholars and rhetoricians who had flocked to Athens as the intellectual centre of the Hellenic world.-From the introduction to 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes.

96 pages

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	2006
ISBN13	9781420927597
Forlag	Digireads.com
Antal sider	96
Mål	171 × 267 × 2 mm · 113 g
Sprog	Engelsk

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