An early chorus in this play criticizes the play Marcias for overplaying its crone and relying on the god "Hyperbolus," and celebrates its author's previous work's ingenuity in insulting Cleon. One of this play's characters later attempts to default on debts owed to Amynias and Pasias by arguing that the day "Old-and-New" is really two days. That character's son beats him for insulting Euripides, and justifies his assault using Wrong Logic, which had earlier won a debate
An early chorus in this play criticizes the play Marcias for overplaying its crone and relying on the god "Hyperbolus," and celebrates its author's previous work's ingenuity in insulting Cleon. One of this play's characters later attempts to default on debts owed to Amynias and Pasias by arguing that the day "Old-and-New" is really two days. That character's son beats him for insulting Euripides, and justifies his assault using Wrong Logic, which had earlier won a debate over Right Logic. Ending with Strepsiades burning down the Thinkery, FTP, identify this play by Aristophanes satirizing Socrates as a Sophist that features an ethereal chorus.
An early chorus in this play criticizes the play Marcias for overplaying its crone and relying on the god "Hyperbolus," and celebrates its author's previous work's ingenuity in insulting Cleon.
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