{"product_id":"clouds-and-two-other-plays-frogs-and-the-birds-paperback","title":"Clouds and Two Other Plays: Frogs and The Birds - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Theodoridis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAristophanes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis glowingly exhibits Aristophanes' unbridled imagination and his unrivalled skill at making bellies dance with laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eClouds, he puts Socrates high into the ether because his Philosophy is ethereal and beyond the reach of mere mortals. It is, Aristophanes declares, about as useful as knowing which end of its anatomy, its mouth or its bum, a gnat farts. This then becomes a contest between Good Education\" and \"Bad Education\" and which is more useful to us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eFrogs\u003c\/i\u003e, he travels in the other direction, to Hades' world, which is also beyond the reach of mere mortals. He goes down there to resurrect one of his stage colleagues. All three had died, Sophocles only days before he wrote the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis \u003ci\u003eTheBirds\u003c\/i\u003e is a silly, playful thing where he lets his imagination roam wherever it wants. Athens is a mess of lawyers, of idiot politicians and of complicated, intrusive bureaucracy. After the debacle of the Sicilian Expedition the only thing an author of comedies could write was an airy fantasy. Life in Athens had become intolerable so his two ageing heroes leave this city and, with the aid of birds, found their own, up, midway between the ether of Socrates and the hypogeous world of Hades - a land which they called, \"Land of the Cloudy Gum Cock\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 388\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701769761075,"sku":"9798590703166","price":25.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V2wyTXFWbXQvYzdtUUl4NUdXR2pIZz09.webp?v=1763276415","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/clouds-and-two-other-plays-frogs-and-the-birds-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}