THE CLOUDS BY ARISTOPHANES

Where: OPEN AMPHITHEATRE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS CENTRAL

When: 31/05/2023 - 16/06/2023

Tickets: €13 | €10 (students, pensioners, disabled)

Duration: 80’

Language: Greek

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About the event:

“The Clouds“ Gr: “Nephelai“, is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, originally produced at the Athens City Dionysia of 423 BCE. It is perhaps the world’s first extant “comedy of ideas” and parodies intellectual fashions in classical Athens. In the play, Strepsiades, an elderly Athenian mired in debt, enrolls his son Pheidippides in Socrates’ philosophy school so that he might learn the rhetorical skills necessary to defeat their creditors in court, although all he really learns is cynical disrespect for social mores and contempt for authority, which leads to Strepsiades burning the school down in disgust.