The Clouds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Clouds, credited to Aristophanes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Clouds, by Aristophanes. Read by Expatriate. Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in order to outwit his creditors in court. Socrates, represented as a cunning, manipulative, irreverent sophist, has little success with the dull-witted Strepsiades, but is able to teach the old man's son Phidippides a few tricks. In the end, the play is a cynical, clever commentary on Old Ways vs. New Ways, to the disparagement of the former. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Clouds
• Author credits: Aristophanes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:38:36

Catalogue topics

• Classics (Antiquity)
• comedy
• dramatic reading
• Greek drama
• Aristophanes

Track guide

1. 01 - Part I — 35:19
2. 02 - Part II — 32:45
3. 03 - Part III — 30:33

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