Characterize Socrates as he is portrayed in Aristophanes' comic play The Clouds.
As the play opens, Socrates is portrayed as a Sophist, hanging in a basket studying things in the heavens. He runs a school called the Thinkery and accepts students for pay. He promises to teach students how to make the weaker argument into the stronger, and he is a thorough rascal.
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