Books with title The Cloud

The Clouds is a Greek comedy play written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes. 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. It was revised between 420 and 417 BC and was thereafter circulated in manuscript form. The Clouds represents a departure from the main themes of Aristophanes' early plays - Athenian politics, the Peloponnesian War and the need for peace with Sparta. The original production of The Clouds in 423 BC came at a time when Athens was looking forward to a period of peace. "The Clouds" has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.

There are many editions of The Clouds. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of “difficult, and often encountered” words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

The Clouds is a Greek comedy drama composed by the greatly recognized dramatist Aristophanes. The Clouds is regarded as the world's first subsisting comedy of ideas. The story opens with the character Strepsiades abruptly sits up in bed while his son is still peacefully asleep next to him. Strepsiades worries too much of his debts that he could hardly sleep. His wife, who came from an aristocratic family, has motivated their son's fancy deal in horses. Strepsiades thought about making plans to solve and get rid of his debts, he wakes up his son and asks him to do something about his loans. Pheidippides, his son, agrees to help his father, but not long after he realizes that his father wants him to study in a school called Thinkery, for its students makes defeating arguments into winning arguments and the only solution to win their case from the afflicted creditors. Strepsiades has no choice but to enroll himself in the school despite of his age. Aristophanes is the son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a humor dramatist of classical Athens. His eleven dramas out of forty existed and is accurately complete. The eleven dramas along with bits and pieces of a few of his several dramas, include the original samples of a category of comic play called as Old Comedy.He was also described as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes was said to renew the life of classical Athens more critically than all other writers.His charm of parody caused angst and appreciation by inspiring contemporaries. Plato called Aristophanes' play The Clouds as a scandalous remark that the trial that follows to the conviction of death to Socrates but other farcical dramatists had also mocked the comedian.One of his plays, The Babylonians which is now gone, was criticized by the hot headed Cleon as a defamation over the Athenianpolis.