This assignment is intended to exercise students analytical skills in producing a compact (400-500 words) but penetrating analysis of a selected passage drawn from one of our course texts.  The analysis should place the selected passage in context and subject it to a critically detailed examination of its  parts (the Greek word analusis means to loosen the parts which make up the whole in order to better understand them individually and as they relate) and interpretation of the texts inherent or implicit meaning (i.e. reading between the lines) and its larger significance.

Please write a 400-500 word analysis of its inherent meaning.

–Pheidippides’ reasoned argument in favor of a son beating his father in Aristophanes’ The Clouds (92-93).