Aristophanes. Clouds

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Name (Latin)
Aristophanes. Clouds
Other forms of name
Aristophanes. Nefelai
nna Aristophanes. Nubes
Beginning or single date created
-0422
Form of work
Play
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 183837514
Wikidata: Q868447
Library of congress: n 80008529
Old Aleph NLI id: 699762
Sources of Information
  • Hē archaia Hellēnikē kōmōdia kai hoi Nepheles tou Aristophanē, 1951.
  • Brill's new Pauly online, 6 September 2012
  • Thesaurus linguae graecae, 6 September 2012
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Wikipedia description:

The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι, Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420 and 417 BC and was thereafter circulated in manuscript form. No copy of the original production survives, and scholarly analysis indicates that the revised version is an incomplete form of Old Comedy. This incompleteness, however, is not obvious in translations and modern performances. Retrospectively, The Clouds can be considered the world's first extant "comedy of ideas" and is considered by literary critics to be among the finest examples of the genre. The play also, however, remains notorious for its caricature of Socrates, and is cited by Plato in the Apology as a contributing factor to the philosopher's trial and execution.

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