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.

Clouds play multiple critical roles in the climate system.

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 ).

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.

In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

Simply the names of the characters in this particular play of Aristophanes make a political statement.

Aristophanes, in his play Lysistrata, creates the scenario of an Athenian woman's anti-war sex strike during the Peloponnesian War of 431 – 404 BC, and the play has gained an international reputation for its anti-war message.

" The fact of bad money being used in preference to good money is also noted by Aristophanes in his play The Frogs, which dates from around the end of the 5th century BC.

The play depicts Socrates, a contemporary of Aristophanes, as tinkering with odd devices and performing implausible experiments to determine the nature of the clouds and sky, and presents his philosophical method as a means for deceiving others and escaping blame, closer to the later descriptions of his opponents, the Sophists, than to those usually ascribed to him.

* Aristophanes ' play The Frogs is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Birds is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play, a new comedy called The Ecclesiazusae, is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Acharnians is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Peace is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play The Wasps is performed.

* Aristophanes ' play Plutus is performed.

The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey, Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled The Sausage, and Aristophanes ' play The Knights is about a sausage-vendor who is elected leader.

In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: " He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve.

The playwright and poet Aristophanes parodied this festival in the play, Thesmophoriazusae, but he did not give much detail about the festival itself.

" Agoracritus " is also a character ( the sausage seller ) in Greek playwright Aristophanes ' play The Knights.

Apparently as criticism, about 2, 400 years ago, in 390 BCE, Aristophanes wrote a play, Ecclesiazusae, about women gaining legislative power and governing Athens, Greece, on a limited principle of equality.

In 1982, the play was lampooned by the Canadian / U. S. TV comedy show SCTV.

* Bacis: A legendary soothsayer – his oracles are lampooned in this play ( lines 962, 970 ) and in other plays.

In it, Trotter was lampooned in the figure of “ Calista, a lady who pretends to the learned languages and assumes to herself the name of critic .” Her second and arguably best-liked play The Fatal Friendship was staged in 1698.

The play lampooned the actions of the US House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) and Senator Joseph McCarthy.