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“Clouds,” 1407, where Pheidippides “drags his father Strepsiades through the mire.”
Memorabilia 2007
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“Clouds,” where Socrates is giving Strepsiades a lesson in
Symposium 2007
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Strepsiades presents his middle finger with the other fingers and thumb bent under in an indecent gesture meant to suggest the penis and testicles.
Satyricon 2007
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[Socrates goes into the Thoughtery, Strepsiades into his own house.]
The Clouds 2000
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Strepsiades: [rushing out With Phidippides after him]
The Clouds 2000
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Strepsiades: [coming out of his house and pushing his son in front of him]
The Clouds 2000
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Strepsiades, who had apprenticed himself to Socrates, returns chastened to the old ways and Socrates '“think - tank” is burned to the ground.
SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968
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To the appeal of Strepsiades, Socrates, interrupted in his reveries, thus answers:
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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Strepsiades sum up the teaching he has received in the words 'Vortex has driven out Zeus and reigns in his stead', and when he makes Socrates swear by 'Chaos, Respiration and Air'.
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Aristophanes, in the _Clouds_, puts on the stage a coarse personage named Strepsiades, who points out to Socrates how he must manage so as not to pay his debts:
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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