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Νεφέλες - Πλούτος

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Νεφέλες: Ο γέροντας Στρεψιάδης προσπαθεί να διδαχτεί από έναν δάσκαλο της σοφιστικής τρόπο για να μην πληρώνει τα χρέη του, ώσπου φτάνει να πυρπολήσει το σχολείο του Σωκράτη. Κριτική των νεοτεριστικών μεθόδων των σοφιστών και του Σωκράτη, η οποία, κατά τον Πλάτωνα, συνέβαλε στη διαστρέβλωση της αλήθειας σχετικά με την προσωπικότητα του μεγάλου φιλοσόφου.

Πλούτος: Ο Πλούτος είναι τυφλός και γι’ αυτό χαρίζει τα αγαθά του στους κακούς. Ο φτωχός αγρότης Χρεμύλος τον οδηγεί στον Ασκληπιό για θεραπεία, οπότε ο Πλούτος μοιράζει τα αγαθά του στους καλούς.

269 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 389

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Aristophanes

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Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.
Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights, the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all."

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January 4, 2016
Τον Αριστοφάνη τον αντιλαμβάνεσαι αν τον διαβάσεις από τα αρχαία ελληνικά!λεξιπλάστης ευρηματικός!η μετάφραση όπως και αν το κάνουμε χάνει.
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June 26, 2016
Μια κωμωδία του Αριστοφάνη για τον Άδικο και Δίκαιο Λόγο,οι οποίοι επικαλούνται πολλά επιχειρήματα ο καθένας τους για να πείσουν,χρησιμοποιώντας(Αριστοφάνης) τον Αθηναίο φιλόσοφο Σωκράτη σατιρίζοντας τα μαθήματα των σοφιστών.Τα παθήματα του κουτοπόνηρου απατεωνίσκου μας φέρνουν γέλια ,έτσι όπως τα παρουσιάζει ο Αριστοφάνης,δίνοντας το δίδαγμα ότι όποιος αγαπά το άδικο,αυτά παθαίνει.
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