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“This is a famous play by a great comic writer… Socrates is lampooned: he’s the comic figure who arrives in a basket, and is clearly a grubby old man, a chiseller and a cheat. The play is the story of Strepsiades, who is in debt because his son keeps spending his money on horses, and he hopes that Socrates can educate him so he can win his cases in court and get out of debt. It’s a domestic drama. But The Clouds is also a philosophical play… If you read The Clouds and the Apology side by side you get a snapshot of Athens at the end of the Fifth Century” Read more...
M M McCabe, Philosopher
