Answer These Study Questions For My Classics Class.

Clouds, Aristophanes

  1. What is the belief of the sophists concerning speaking and education, as seen in the agon (contest) between Just and Unjust Speech (lines 889-1101) and the teaching of Pheidippides in the Thinkery?

2. What is the purpose of the parabasis (digression) at lines 518-562?

3. How is Socrates characterized in this comedy?