Aristophanes mentions the burning lens in his play The Clouds ( 424 BC ).

Aristophanes parodied such teachings in his play The Clouds by putting a prayer to air in the mouth of Socrates.

Aristophanes famously parodies the clever inversions that sophists were known for in his play The Clouds.

* Aristophanes ' play The Clouds is performed as is Sophocles ' play Maidens of Trachi and The Putine ( The Bottle ), by Cratinus.

He appears in a play of Eupolis, and in The Clouds ( 423 BC ) and The Birds ( 414 BC ) of Aristophanes.

Aristophanes however had singled Cleon out for special treatment in his previous play The Knights in 424 and there are relatively few references to him in The Clouds.

At one point in The Clouds, the Chorus declares that the author chose Athens for the first performance of the play, implying that he could have produced it somewhere else ( line 523 ).

Tragic poets sometimes produced their plays in other cities ( Euripides ' play Andromache for example was possibly performed in Argos just before The Clouds appeared at the City Dionysia ) yet comic poets in Aristophanes ' time wrote specifically for local audiences and their plays were studded with topical jokes that only a local audience could understand.

The following places and personalities are mentioned in The Clouds and they are explained and listed in various editions of the play.

According to the Clouds, any judge who fails to award victory to this play might wish to have been born in Egypt after they've finished with him ( line 1130 ).

References in the same parabasis to a play by Eupolis called Maricas ( produced in 421 ) and criticism of the populist politician Hyperbolus ( ostracized in 416 ) indicate that the second version of The Clouds was probably composed somewhere between 421-16 BC.

In The Clouds however, the Chorus appears sympathetic at first but emerges as a virtual antagonist by the end of the play.

Songs performed in the play, but not included on the album: " Chase the Clouds Away " and " In the Morning ".

* Clouds ( play ), a 1977 philosophical comedic play by British playwright Michael Frayn

* The Clouds, a 1797 play by the British writer Richard Cumberland

It praises the author for standing up to monsters like Cleon and it chastises the audience for its failure to appreciate the merits of the author's previous play ( The Clouds ).

Aristophanes ' play The Clouds came third ( i. e. last ).

Bolton's screen credits include Ambassador Bill ( 1931 ), Week-End at the Waldorf ( 1945 ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1945 ), Till the Clouds Roll By ( 1946 ), Easter Parade ( 1948 ) and the German adaptation of his play Adorable Julia ( 1962 ).

In his play, The Clouds, Aristophanes lampooned Socrates by presenting him as the paradigm of atheistic, scientific sophistry.

The issue of corruption is important for two reasons: first, it appears to be the heart of the charge against him, that he corrupted the young by teaching some version of atheism, and second, Socrates says that if he is convicted, it will be because Aristophanes corrupted the minds of his audience when they were young ( with his slapstick mockery of Socrates in his play, " The Clouds ", produced some twenty-four years earlier ).

A grammarian describes the background of the play as follows: In 424 BC, Aristophanes produced The Knights, in which he described Cratinus " as a drivelling old man, wandering about with his crown withered, and so utterly neglected by his former admirers that he could not even procure to quench the thirst of which he was perishing " Soon after that play, Cratinus responded by producing a play called Pytine ( The Wineflask ) in 423 BC, which defeated the Connus of Ameipsias and The Clouds of Aristophanes, which was produced in the same year.

Four of their albums — Soundtrack from the Film More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds — are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation.

Clouds Taste Metallic was released to much critical fanfare in late 1995, though it did not achieve the commercial success of its predecessor.

He also published two volumes of memoirs, Twice Round the Black Church ( 1962 ) and A Penny in the Clouds ( 1968 ) and a number of scattered critical essays and book reviews.

His first recognizable roles in films came in 1995, as Pedro Aragon, Jr. in A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Giancarlo Giannini and as a Vietnam veteran in Dead Presidents with Larenz Tate and Chris Tucker.

Clouds remain one of the largest uncertainties in future projections of climate change by global climate models, owing to the physical complexity of cloud processes and the small scale of individual clouds relative to the size of the model computational grid.

Clouds in the troposphere have Latin names due to the popular adaptation of Luke Howard's cloud categorization system, which began to spread in popularity during December 1802.

The retrorocket system failed, and the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface at the Sea of Clouds.

in 1981, and Ph. D. in 1986 for his design and implementation of the original Clouds distributed operating system kernel.

While studying towards a Ph. D. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology in the early eighties, he was the architect of the Clouds distributed object-oriented operating system ; his thesis was entitled " An Architecture for Reliable Decentralized Systems ".

This was the first system beyond the Magellanic Clouds to have its distance accurately determined.

And it was not Pile of Clouds she meant.

But she did not move, taking the words and the sticks in that old defiance of her extreme youth until suddenly Pile of Clouds came howling among them, swinging a great bullhide whip.

And the suspicious, envenomed eyes of Pile of Clouds.

Clouds may block the sunlight plants need for photosynthesis, reducing productivity.

He suffers from sea sickness, and in Death in the Clouds believes that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.

Later we have Till the Clouds Roll By ( Victor Fleming, 1919 ), where anamorphosis is used to depict the nightmare effects of indigestion in a comic manner.

Nevertheless, in 1942, Alessandro Blasetti produced his Quattro passi fra le nuvole ( Four Steps in the Clouds ), the story of a humble employee, considered by many others as the first neorealist work.

Mikio Naruse directed the wide screen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960 ; his final film was 1967's Scattered Clouds.

" Frigga Spinning the Clouds " by John Charles Dollman | J. C. Dollman.

Nearby examples of ( dwarf ) irregular galaxies include the Magellanic Clouds.

Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp-inserted to sound more aristocratic.

The next year, he travels ( in Clouds of Witness, 1926 ) to the fictional Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire to assist his older brother Gerald, who has been accused of murdering Captain Denis Cathcart, their sister's fiancé.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

Many impressive objects visible only from the southern hemisphere, such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are not listed.

Might & Magic: The World of Xeen ( comprising Clouds of Xeen and Dark Side of Xeen ) was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon # 201 by Sandy Petersen in the " Eye of the Monitor " column.

Many more are known in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds — they are easier to detect in external systems than in our own galaxy because projection effects can cause unrelated clusters within the Milky Way to appear close to each other.

In 2004, Cruz appeared in the Christmas film Noel as Nina, the girlfriend of Paul Walker's character and as Mia in the romantic drama, Head in the Clouds, set in the 1930s.

Head in the Clouds performed poorly at the box office.

Aristophanes, a playwright of 5th century Athens, wrote plays of political satire such as The Wasps, The Birds and The Clouds.