by Aristófanes · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474107630
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«Els nuvols» is Aristophanes' comedy, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (112 pages, in Catalan).
An Athenian farmer, ruined by the debts of his son Pheidippides, decides to send him to Socrates' school to master the sophists' rhetoric. The plan fails and the old man tries in vain to absorb the lessons, in a satire of the new educational model and the sophist challenge to traditional morality.
Catalan edition with translation, introduction and notes by Mercè Valls; part of the L'Esparver Clàssic collection.
For readers of classical theatre and ancient Greek comedy, with an interest in satire of classical Athenian customs.
Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
