Aristophanes Clouds 970

Clouds. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (English) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Νεφέλαι Perseus (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) — 889-1104 focus
Translations (2)
Clouds Perseus (Aristophanes. The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. I. Hickie, William James, translator. Bohn: London, 1853.) — 961 focus
English (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) Experimental (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) — 961 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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οἵας οἱ νῦν τὰς κατὰ Φρῦνιν ταύτας τὰς δυσκολοκάμπτους,
The phrase 'τὰς κατὰ Φρῦνιν' is a specific topographical reference to the Phrynion, a deme of Attica (sometimes identified with the hill or the precinct of Phryne, though here likely the deme itself). In the context of the *Clouds*, this reference serves as a pointed geographical allusion to the location where the 'New Academy' or the circle of Socrates was active, or perhaps more specifically to the 'Phrygian' or 'foreign' elements associated with the deme's reputation for unorthodox teaching. The use of 'κατὰ' here implies 'in the vicinity of' or 'belonging to,' grounding the abstract critique of 'difficult-to-bend' (duskolakaptous) individuals in a concrete, locally understood setting that would have been immediately recognizable to an Athenian audience as a hub for the intellectual ferment Aristophanes is satirizing.