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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristophanes

Aristophanes
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Clouds (423 B.C.)

Background:

Riding on the wave of success, Aristophanes produced what he thought was
his best comedy at the Great Dionysia in 423 B.C. The Clouds, however, was too
obviously a didactic piece, and the Athenians voted it the third and lowest
prize. Although the play has fine lyric passages, it is too much a
presentation of Aristophanes' educational ideas and his dislike of sophist
instruction.

Characters:

Strepsiades "Twister," an elderly farmer.
Phidippides "Thrift-Horse," Strepsiades' son.
Strepsiades' Servant
Socrates The philosopher.
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