Comedy · 1924

The Clouds

A comedy first produced at Athens in 423 BC

by Aristophanes

Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924)

Strepsiades, ruined by the debts of his horse-mad son, enrols in Socrates's Thinking-Shop to learn the Unjust Logic and cheat his creditors, but his son learns it too, with disastrous results.

Contents · 9 parts

• Persons of the Play7 lines
• Lines 1–223about 250 lines
• Lines 223–402about 300 lines
• Lines 403–574about 260 lines
• Lines 575–732about 220 lines
• Lines 733–910about 220 lines
• Lines 910–1098about 280 lines
• Lines 1098–1327about 280 lines
• Lines 1328–1510about 280 lines

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