Clouds (play)

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Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.

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instanceOf ancient Greek comedy
stage play
author Aristophanes
centralTheme abuse of rhetoric
conflict between old and new education
critique of sophistry
generational conflict
competitionResult third prize at City Dionysia
countryOfOrigin Classical Athens
featuresCharacter Socrates
firstPerformanceDate 423 BC
firstPerformanceEvent City Dionysia
firstPerformancePlace Athens
genre Old Comedy
hasChorus Clouds
hasForm verse drama
hasTopic debt and finance
education
family relations
morality
hasVersion original 423 BC version
revised version
influenced later perceptions of Socrates
influencedBy Athenian intellectual life
Sophistic movement
literaryMovement Attic Old Comedy
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature
mainCharacter Pheidippides
Strepsiades
notableFeature comic portrayal of Socrates in a thinking-shop (Phrontisterion)
extended parabasis where Aristophanes addresses the audience
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
parodies Socratic method
natural philosophy
partOf Aristophanes’ surviving plays
satirizes Socrates
Sophists
intellectual fashions of classical Athens
settingLocation Athens
structure agon
episodes
exodos
parabasis
parodos
prologue
timePeriodDepicted Peloponnesian War era
workInLanguage Clouds (Ancient Greek title: Nephelai)

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Socrates' Thinkery relatedWork Clouds (play)