Life
•Aristophanes'
play The Clouds
•Portrays
Socrates as a clown who teaches his students how to bamboozle
their way out of debt.
•Most
of Aristophanes' works are parodies
•My
partial retranslation is included
•According
to Plato
•Socrates'
father was Sophroniscus, a stone mason
•Mother
Phaenarete, a midwife
•Characterized
as unattractive in appearance and short in stature