Scholarship has zeroed in on the portrait of Socrates and Socratism in Aristophanes’ Clouds, but has usually neglected the poetic creation of the Thinkery throughout the play. By studying the symbolic use of theatrical space (both mimetic and diegetic) along the horizontal and the vertical axes in the construction of the φροντιστήριον, this paper aims to show that, in featuring the Thinkery and Socrates, Aristophanes had a precise parallel in mind: Pythagorean schools.
Inside out, upside down. Creating the phrontisterion in Aristophanes’ Clouds
Francesco Morosi
2018
Abstract
Scholarship has zeroed in on the portrait of Socrates and Socratism in Aristophanes’ Clouds, but has usually neglected the poetic creation of the Thinkery throughout the play. By studying the symbolic use of theatrical space (both mimetic and diegetic) along the horizontal and the vertical axes in the construction of the φροντιστήριον, this paper aims to show that, in featuring the Thinkery and Socrates, Aristophanes had a precise parallel in mind: Pythagorean schools.File in questo prodotto:
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