The Clouds (Webster's Arabic Thesaurus Edition) Review

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The Clouds (Webster's Arabic Thesaurus Edition) ReviewIf you've never read "Clouds", go do so now! Or at least read the synopses offered by previous reviewers. Unless you want to reimburse me for completing your humanistic belle-lettristic education by PayPal, that is. I've taken a lesson from the sophist think-tank depicted by Aristophanes, and decided to convert my hobby to a cash-in-advance enterprise. No more free history lessons! No tips on investments based on my insider's contacts with the Obama's dog! And no fire insurance for homes where intellectual conversations occur!
The orthodox opinion on "Clouds" has been that Socrates is unfairly and inaccurately portrayed as an unscrupulous shyster and philosophical fraud. There has been ink spilled about the angry suggestion that Aristophanes's representation of Socrates as a 'disbeliever' in Zeus and the other Homeric Gods was a specific causative factor in the trial and execution-by-suicide of Socrates, the martyr for free thought. Well now, hold on! We have basically only two depictions of Socrates the man and teacher: 1. this obviously satiric portrayal by the acidulous Aristophanes, done from life with the subject in the audience, and 2. the post-trial accounts by disciples of Socrates, Xenophon and Plato, the latter colored by adulation and plainly committed to the exposition of Plato's own complex philosophical notions. Almost everything we think we know about Socrates is myth and legend of later centuries. Unless we CHOOSE to prefer Plato's Socrates to the doofus portrayed by Aristophanes, the honest thing to do would be to admit that all we know is nothing. But Plato was a slippery character, a literary type, and you know what they're like! Whereas Aristophanes was a comedian writing for a sophisticated contemporary audience; if his portrayal of Socrates wasn't at least close to the mark, the audience would have sat on their hands. Taking my precedent from another play -- Frogs, in which Dionysius rationalizes his verdict in favor of Aeschylus over Euripides on a purely pragmatic basis -- I hereby conclude that the Aristophelian Socrates seems far more plausible as a historic figure than the Platonic.
This is a solid 'reading' translation, as literal as any, with a well-argued introduction reaching the opposite verdict, and with clear explanatory notes, which you will need. The play is replete with allusions to living figures of Aristophanes's Athens. What I think might be fun would be to gather a crowd of friends and read the thing aloud together, appropriately lubricated with libations (but not on the carpet!) and followed by furious debate over the possibility that the chorus of Clouds were cryptic harbingers of anthropogenic climate change.The Clouds (Webster's Arabic Thesaurus Edition) OverviewWebster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Arabic thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Clouds by Aristophanes was edited for three audiences. The first includes Arabic-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC� preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Arabic speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Arabic in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement� (AP�) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Arabic Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Arabic or English.TOEFL�, TOEIC�, AP� and Advanced Placement� are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.

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