Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds

This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes'' Clouds. O''Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argumen...