Satirized Philosophical Ideas in Aristophanes ‘Clouds’
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52340/atsu.2025.1.25.08Keywords:
ancient comedy, Aristophanes, Clouds’ philosophical, satireAbstract
The main feature of Aristophanes’ ‘Clouds’ is to deride serious philosophical issues. Aristophanes tries to use certain ways through which he manages to make us consider sophistic thinking as an absurd and create a comic effect. The main issue is that the characters of the comedy do not have the complete education in philosophy that is quite visible in their ‘argumentative’ conversations and the reader makes sure that a person is very hilarious when speaking about the issues which he hasn’t realized properly.
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