Chorus of Clouds
deity figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Clouds · the Clouds · Chorus · our divinities
in the texts
Clouds
The chorus of personified Clouds, worshipped within the play's comic theology as the true divinities behind rhetoric, sophistry, and natural phenomena, replacing the traditional Olympian gods.
Dramatis Personae Strepsiades Phidippides Servant of Strepsiades Disciples of Socrates Socrates Chorus of Clouds Just Cause Unjust Cause Pasias Amynias Witness Chaerephon Hermes
Let us arise to view with our dewy, clear-bright nature, from loud-sounding Father Ocean to the wood-crowned summits of the lofty mountains, in order that we may behold clearly the far-seen watch-towers, and the fruits, and the fostering, sacred earth, and the rushing sounds of the divine rivers, and the roaring, loud-sounding sea;
O sovereign King, immeasurable Air, who keepest the earth suspended, and through bright Aether, and ye august goddesses, the Clouds, sending thunder and lightning, arise, appear in the air, O mistresses, to your deep thinker!