CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Pheidippides
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. Begins at the house of strepsiades (an old countryman who now lives in athens, father of pheidippides) strepsiades & pheidippides (his son, an extravagant and fashionable young man) are in bed. Strepsiades tosses and turns in a restless sleep. He complains that pheidippides sleeps peacefully without worry about his expensive riding habits. Strepsiades worried about his debt, as it is the time of the month when bills come in. He asks his servant to fetch his checkbook. He plots a way to pay his creditors, who are angry at his growing debt. Notices a little house with a gate in front named highbrow hall, a place of learning if you pay the fees learn how to make men believe anything you say. Strepsiades wanted to enroll himself, but chorus (voice in the play, foreshadow actions, give advice) recommends that pheidippides go in his place. True logic backs down to false logic.
