The satire in this; one of the best known of all Aristophanes comedies; is directed against the new schools of philosophy; or perhaps we should rather say dialectic; which had lately been introduced; mostly from abroad; at Athens. The doctrines held up to ridicule are those of the Sophistsmdash;such men as Thrasymachus from Chalcedon in Bithynia; Gorgias from Leontini in Sicily; Protagoras from Abdera in Thrace; and other foreign scholars and rhetoricians who had flocked to Athens as the intellectual centre of the Hellenic world.mdash;From the introduction to lsquo;The Cloudsrsquo; by Aristophanes.
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