by Aristófanes · Ediciones Clásicas, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478824892
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«Las nubes» is the comedy by Greek playwright Aristophanes, published by Ediciones Clásicas, S.A. in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
The play satirizes the Athens of its time and new philosophical trends: the elderly Strepsiades, burdened with debts, takes his son Pheidippides to Socrates' «Thinkery» to learn how to win arguments. The young man ends up mastering rhetoric and uses it to justify mistreating his own father.
The edition includes introduction, translation and notes by Luis M. Macía Aparicio; corresponds to the 2nd ed., 1st printing.
For readers interested in classical Greek theatre and satirical comedy of antiquity.
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.
