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A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical athens, it was originally produced at the city dionysia in 423 bc and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. The clouds by aristophanes pdf book manual free download. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete. Read the clouds by aristophanes available from rakuten kobo. Nephelai is a greek comedy play written by the playwright aristophanes.
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