A farmer sends his son to Socrates's 'Thinkery' to learn how to argue his way out of debt, with disastrous results. Aristophanes's satire on the new philosophy.
Books mentioned in The Clouds (1)
The Shearing of the Ram by Simonides: “After we had feasted, as you know, I first bade him take a lyre, and sing a song of Simonides, "The Shearing of the Ram."”
Books that mention The Clouds (6)
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: “As for Aristophanes, owing to his strong moral disapprobation, he could not bring himself to read him until he was forty, when, it is true, he was much struck by the 'Clouds'.”
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie: “In Aristophanes' play The Clouds, Socrates floats overhead in a balloon basket, getting high so he can elevate his thoughts.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “...different examples of comedy as Aristophanes' The Clouds, Gulliver's Travels, Tex Avery cartoons, Candide...”
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault: “they had puffed him up with vanity, taught him impious free-thinking (here someone usually quoted The Clouds) until he dared to chop logic with Perikles himself”
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault: “the character arrested me, since I knew him mostly from the lampoon in The Clouds”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “There is a moment in Clouds when the avaricious protagonist, Strepsiades, discovers to his horror that his son has learned from the school of sophists”