The Clouds

Aristophanes

⏱ 8 minDrama

Drowning in his son's racing debts, an old Athenian enrolls in Socrates's 'Thinkery' to learn how to argue his way out of paying. Aristophanes's riotous comedy lampooning the new sophistry, its clouds of hot air, and the men who worship them.

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