The sources of Clouds

1. Aeschylus 1 refuted 1 citation

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   Aeschylus is named and requested for recitation, then explicitly criticized and rejected by Phidippides.

   and then he immediately said, Shall I consider Aeschylus the first among the poets, full of empty sound, unpolished, bombastic, using rugged words?

2. Euripides 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages

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   A passage of Euripides is quoted in the narration and Phidippides explicitly calls him 'the wisest of poets,' endorsing him against his father's older favorites.

   And he immediately sang a passage of Euripides, how a brother, O averter of ill!

3. Homer 1 authority 1 citation

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   Unjust Cause explicitly appeals to Homer's authority ('Homer would never have been for representing Nestor as an orator') to legitimize his own position.

   For if it had been bad, Homer would never have been for representing Nestor as an orator;

4. Knights Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation

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   The poet cites his own earlier comedy the Knights as the authoritative original text that rivals have imitated and debased.

   Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.

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clouds 8 sources

Maricas · The Shearing of the Ram · law of the Old and New day · maxims of Pandeletus · the poem of the drunken old woman devoured by a whale · the reputation of Thales as a wise natural philosopher · the teaching and reputation of Prodicus · verses on Hyperbolus