This fine edition, the first of a Greek comedy in the series, was published in 2012. These editions, published by Cambridge University Press as the ''Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama,', are the best available schoolbooks for Greek tragedy. Apparently, there was no libel laws in Athens or method for settling disputes by dueling. I was equally fascinated by how Aristophanes could lampoon his fellow Athenians - calling them cowards, pansies, or, in the case of Socrates, the biggest fool that ever lived. We thing that movies and TV shows that 'break the fourth wall' are something new, but Aristophanes was doing that 2,500 years ago. The humor in this story would not have been out of place in Vaudeville. I was amazed by how little humor had evolved. Strepsiades is not necessarily one step ahead, although his comic asides can elicit belly laughs and chuckles. Socrates and his school are depicted as wan, over-educated, buffoonish con-men. The Sophist teacher in this case is Socrates. So, he gets the brilliant of idea of learning how to cheat his creditors in court by learning from a Sophist educator the wrong argument that always beats just arguments.

Strepsiades is a venal cheater who doesn't want to pay his creditors.

I'd always heard that Socrates was a character in the Clouds, but I hadn't realized that he was a main character. Resources are available on the Companion Website.Please give my Amazon review a helpful vote. Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 47 to 50.1 and 53 to 61

Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 19 to 6.32 The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2022-24 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level.

PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect.

Aristophanes by John Claughton