Power and Persuasion in Aristophanes' \
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Published on 2006 by ProQuest
In Clouds, the comically rendered activity of the sophists is summed up in the image of the final agon: father-beating. Pheidippides proves that it is eikos to beat one's father by undermining the authority of ancestral nomoi and, ultimately, by appealing to the natural and anomian activity of roosters. Physis provides for the clever speaker an undefined and plastic frame of reference, an ethical vacuum that can be filled as the speaker sees fit; and so is open to abuse from a myriad directions.
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