Clouds.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 22802 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 206 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2009 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800028 |
Classic bilingual collection. They go barefoot, their complexion is pale like that of corpses, their gaze is brilliant. They use their sharp tongues to teach, for a fee, the exquisite art of doubting everything, of transforming just speech into unjust speech and of living above the law. In the shadow of the "thinking-room", these undead have as their master the chattering, the divine Socrates. Through these characters, a synthesis of the different intellectuals who lived in Athens around 423 BC, Aristophanes questions the impact that the ideas of the sophists have on citizens. A resolute conservative, an ardent defender of morality and education bequeathed by tradition, he hates innovators and lumps together the sophists and Socrates, that strange man who always seemed to be in the clouds. The Clouds is the best-known of Aristophanes' comedies, but also one of his greatest successes.
Classic bilingual collection. They go barefoot, their complexion is pale like that of corpses, their gaze is brilliant. They use their sharp tongues to teach, for a fee, the exquisite art of doubting everything, of transforming just speech into unjust speech and of living above the law. In the shadow of the "thinking-room", these undead have as their master the chattering, the divine Socrates. Through these characters, a synthesis of the different intellectuals who lived in Athens around 423 BC, Aristophanes questions the impact that the ideas of the sophists have on citizens. A resolute conservative, an ardent defender of morality and education bequeathed by tradition, he hates innovators and lumps together the sophists and Socrates, that strange man who always seemed to be in the clouds. The Clouds is the best-known of Aristophanes' comedies, but also one of his greatest successes.