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The Aristophanic 'Visit' will not be light-hearted and witty. Because we expect something more joyful from Aristophanes: grace. Comedy is often the author's Cry who cannot, or is not allowed to, write tragedy. In comedy, the outcome is the punishment of someone. There is no forgiveness.
Aristophanes saw his homeland Athens 'sinning' (in the ancient sense of the word here). He initially tried to ignore the flow of History. Then he attempted to interrupt it (utopia). He desired history frozen at the moment of man’s greatest glory and victory, in the Golden Age.
The elderly Strepsiades will lead his son to a School where Socrates presides (here presented either as a 'bad teacher' of the Athenians or as a characteristic representative of the Sophists and Atheists) to learn how to thrive with injustice as his weapon. The Clouds will trap him, and through a reductio ad absurdum, will make Strepsiades bitterly repent.
Mysterious, punishing deities, the Clouds will depart victorious and unsmiling.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Aristofanis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 115
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- No
- Bilingual edition
- No
- ISBN-13
- 9789600318821
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