Disambiguation evidence for Aristophanes' play Clouds via surface form

"Clouds"


As subject (49)

Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Clouds".

Predicate Object
author Aristophanes
centralTheme abuse of rhetoric
centralTheme conflict between old and new education
centralTheme debt and financial anxiety
centralTheme generational conflict
centralTheme moral consequences of sophistry
competitionResult placed third at the City Dionysia of 423 BC
countryOfOrigin Classical Athens
dramaticSetting Athens
dramaticSetting Socrates' Thinkery
featuresCharacter Socrates
featuresChorus Clouds
featuresConcept Just Argument
featuresConcept Unjust Argument
firstPerformanceDate 423 BC
firstPerformanceFestival Dionysia
surface form: City Dionysia
firstPerformanceLocation Athens
genre Old Comedy
hasRevisedVersion second edition by Aristophanes
influenced comic portrayals of philosophers
influenced later perceptions of Socrates
instanceOf ancient Greek comedy play
instanceOf satirical play
literaryDevice allegory
literaryDevice caricature
literaryDevice choral commentary
literaryDevice parody
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature
mainCharacter Pheidippides
mainCharacter Strepsiades
notableTheme tension between traditional piety and new intellectualism
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
parodies Socrates
partOf Aristophanes' surviving plays
plotSummary An indebted Athenian, Strepsiades, tries to learn deceptive argumentation from Socrates to avoid paying his debts, leading to family and moral chaos.
preservationStatus extant in near-complete form
referencedIn Apology of Socrates
surface form: Plato's Apology
satirizes Socrates
satirizes Sophists
satirizes intellectual trends of classical Athens
satirizes new philosophical education
selfCritique Aristophanes' play Clouds self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aristophanes criticizes the play in his later work for not winning first prize
structure agon
structure episodes
structure exodos
structure parabasis
structure parodos
structure prologue
timePeriodDepicted Classical Athens
surface form: Peloponnesian War era Athens