can i say that Sorates head is in the clouds when he is portrayed up in the clouds in Aristophanes comedy clouds
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i meant Socrates not Sorates, sorry.
Greek comedies are not slapstick and laugh-out-loud funny the way we interpret the word "comedy" today. They are satires or parodies of whatever the playwright saw was wrong in that city or society.
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http://www.answers.com/parody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy
Read the first paragraph VERY carefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes
http://www.answers.com/satire
http://www.answers.com/parody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy
Read the first paragraph VERY carefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes