The Clouds
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 (1 hr 38 min)
Chapters
| Part I | 35:19 | Read by Expatriate |
| Part II | 32:45 | Read by Expatriate |
| Part III | 30:33 | Read by Expatriate |
Reviews
good
frankljs
It is good for a free book, but the narrator could have slowed down a bit and been less monotone. Also, the sound quality was pretty good.
extremely funny
Josephus
Expatriate once again does a stellar narration of this great play.
nicely read
A LibriVox Listener
a nice rhythm plus a good translation pleasing metricality
good book well read
Thiago Coelho
hilarious play very well read
A LibriVox Listener
A great recording, with dramatic, but not distracting, inflection