Aristophanes vs. Socrates

In Plato’s Apology , Socrates claims that phthonos and diabolē caused Aristophanes to become one of his accusers. Either Socrates is blowing things out of proportion because Aristophanes was clearly just kidding around, or we are wrong to pass Aristophanes’ humour off as ‘just kidding around.’ In this paper, I defend the second alternative. I argue that Aristophanes is a specific kind of social conservative and that Socrates was the sort of social liberal that bothered Aristophanes. I conclude that Clouds is not innocent, but is, as Socrates claimed, driven by phthonos and diabolē

Art · Epistemology · Literature · SOCRATES · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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