Strepsiades
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Strepsiades is the bumbling, debt-ridden Athenian farmer and comic protagonist of Aristophanes’ play "The Clouds," known for seeking sophistic education to escape his financial troubles.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athenian farmer
→
comic protagonist → dramatic character → fictional character → |
| appearsIn |
Aristophanes' play Clouds
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surface form: "The Clouds"
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| appearsInGenre | Attic Old Comedy → |
| associatedWith |
Socrates
→
the Thinkery → |
| characterTrait |
bumbling
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cowardly → cunning → debt-ridden → miserly → |
| citizenship | Athens → |
| conflictWith | Pheidippides → |
| createdBy | Aristophanes → |
| failsAt | learning advanced argumentation → |
| firstPerformanceContext |
Panathenaea
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surface form: "Athenian dramatic festival"
|
| firstPerformanceWork |
Aristophanes' play Clouds
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surface form: "The Clouds (423 BC version)"
|
| genre | Old Comedy character → |
| hasNameLanguage | Ancient Greek → |
| hasRelative | Pheidippides → |
| hasSon | Pheidippides → |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek → |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Athens → |
| literarySignificance | one of Aristophanes’ best-known comic characters → |
| medium | stage play → |
| moralArc | from scheming debtor to disillusioned avenger → |
| motivation |
to escape his debts
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to obtain sophistic education → |
| nameMeaningApproximate | “Twister” or “Shifty one” → |
| narrativeFunction |
vehicle for satire of Socrates
→
vehicle for satire of sophists → |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of The Clouds → |
| occupation | farmer → |
| seeksEducationFrom | Socrates → |
| studiesAt | the Thinkery → |
| symbolizes |
the indebted Athenian citizen
→
traditional rustic values → |
| takesAction | burns the Thinkery (in some versions of the play) → |
| themeInvolvement |
abuse of rhetoric
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conflict between old and new education → critique of sophistry → generational conflict → |
| uses | sophistic arguments → |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form: "Clouds"