" We are then told that his name is Philocleon ( which suggests that he might be addicted to Cleon ) and his son's name is the very opposite of this — Bdelycleon.

At the end of this fray, Philocleon is still barely in his son's custody and both sides are willing to settle the issue peacefully through debate.

Philocleon however is still not able to give up his old ways just yet so Bdelycleon offers to turn the house into a courtroom and to pay him a juror's fee to judge domestic disputes.

Philocleon agrees and a case is soon brought before him — a dispute between the household dogs.

Philocleon is not softened but his son easily fools him into putting his vote into the urn for acquittal.

There is then a second parabasis ( see Note at end of this section ), in which the Chorus touches briefly on a conflict between Cleon and the author, after which a household slave arrives with news for the audience about the old man's appalling behaviour at the dinner party: Philocleon has got himself abusively drunk, he has insulted all his son's fashionable friends and now he is assaulting anyone he meets on the way home.

Philocleon pretends that she is in fact a torch.

The Chorus sings briefly about how difficult it is for men to change their habits and it commends the son for filial devotion, after which the entire cast returns to the stage for some spirited dancing by Philocleon in a contest with the sons of Carcinus.

* Delphi: One of the most sacred sites in Greece, it is said by Philocleon in line 159 to be the source of a fearful prophecy concerning himself.

* Thymaitadoi: A village near the Piraeus, it was a source of rough cloaks that the unsophisticated Philocleon is unable to distinguish from the expensive cloaks worn in Sardis and woven in Ecbatana ( common destinations for Athenian diplomats ), as stated in lines 1138-43.

* Phrynichus: A celebrated tragic poet of an earlier generation, he is mentioned favourably several times by Philocleon and the jurors in lines 220, 269, 1490, 1524.

* Alcaeus: The great lyric poet of Mytilene, he is not mentioned by name but he is the author of some well-known verses that Philocleon adapts to a scolion directed against Cleon in lines 1232-35.

Their performance is mocked by Philocleon and it is even mocked by the Chorus of a later play ( Peace lines 781-6 ).

* Antiphon: An orator and later a leader of the oligarchic government in 411 BC, he is named in line 1270, 1301 as a hungry kind of man and as one of the sophisticated dinner guests abused by Philocleon.

* Phrynichus: A politician and later a leader of the oligarchy of The Four Hundred, he is a central figure at the sophisticated dinner party attended by Antiphon, Theophrastos Lykon, Lysistratus, Bdelycleon, Philocleon et al., as stated in line 1302.

* Euathlus: An associate of Cleon and a prosecutor of the aged Thucydides ( for which he was mentioned in The Acharnians ), he is said by Philocleon in line 592 to be a patron of jurors.

* Pittalus: A doctor who is mentioned also in Acharnians, he is recommended by Philocleon in line 1432 to one of the victims of his own drunken outrages.

* Dictynna: Originally a Cretan goddess of hunting, associated with Mount Dicte, she is evoked by Philocleon in line 368 as he chews on a net ( dictuon ), possibly as a pun though she was in fact identified with Artemis, the goddess of hunting nets.

* Cecrops: The mythical first king of Athens, he is invoked by Philocleon in line 438 as his defender against his son's slaves because they are foreigners.

* The central figure, Philocleon, is a ' triumph of characterization ';

These arguments have a paralysing effect on Philocleon.

For example, he names his two main characters “ Philocleon ” and “ Bdelycleon ”, which mean “ pro-Cleon ” and “ anti-Cleon ”, respectively.

Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the " absurdities " of Aesop from conversation at banquets ; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables " which he knew " into verses.

The father-son relationship between Philocleon and Bdelycleon in The Wasps and the husband-wife relationship between Cinesias and Myrrine in Lysistrata are other examples of Aristophanes ' ability to depict humanity convincingly in the most unconvincing settings imaginable.

He tells them to watch the drains, for the old man can move like a mouse, but Philocleon surprises them all by emerging instead from the chimney disguised as smoke.

Philocleon says he enjoys the flattering attentions of rich and powerful men who appeal to him for a favourable verdict, he enjoys the freedom to interpret the law as he pleases since his decisions are not subject to review, and his juror's pay gives him independence and authority within his own household.

Philocleon declares his reluctance to drink any wine — it causes trouble, he says — but Bdelycleon assures him that sophisticated men of the world can easily talk their way out of trouble and so they depart optimistically for the evening's entertainment.

The slave departs as Philocleon arrives, now with aggrieved victims on his heels and a pretty flute girl on his arm.

Other people with grievances against Philocleon continue to arrive, demanding compensation and threatening legal action.

* Naxos: Subjugated by the Athenians around 470 BC, the Chorus mentions it in line 355 while recalling a soldier's prank perpetrated there by Philocleon.

* Paros: An island that Philocleon once visited for two obols a day ( i. e. as a rower in the Athenian navy )-which was as close to becoming a diplomat as he ever got ( line 1189 ).

His sons ( or dancers masquerading as his sons ) danced in the exodos in this play in competition with Philocleon.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

I am suggesting that a case-history approach to the Oedipus complex is a blind alley for a storyteller.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

The board's action shows what free enterprise is up against in our complex maze of regulatory laws.

The transportation system which serves the National Forests is a complex of highways and access roads and trails under various ownerships and jurisdictions.

But there is still the sometimes complex problem of helping campers choose the best equipment for their individual needs.

Perhaps the best way to indicate the versatility of design that characterizes the use of plastics in signs and displays would be to look at what is happening in only one of the areas in this complex field -- changeable signs.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Hence the totality of singular lines is the T order complex of lines which meet Aj.

Since the complex of singular lines is of order K and since there is no complex of invariant lines, it follows from the formula Af that the order of the involution is Af.

The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.

We now observe that the case in which **zg is a Af curve on a quadric is impossible if the complex of singular lines consists exclusively of the lines which meet Aj.

However, if there is no additional complex of singular lines, the order of the image regulus of a pencil is precisely Af.

In societies like ours, however, its place is less clear and more complex.

This behavior is more `` veridical '' -- or true -- than other testing behavior for some types of evaluation, and so can give quick and accurate estimates of complex functioning.

Of all the possible forms of nonverbal expression, that which seems best to give release, and communicational expression, to complex and undifferentiated feelings is laughter.