The Clouds by Aristophanes audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Aristophanes' sharp and playful comedy The Clouds, Athens is buzzing with new ideas, clever talkers, and fashionable philosophies - and one desperate man hopes to use them to save his skin. Strepsiades, a harried farmer buried under debts from his son Pheidippides' expensive tastes, hears of a strange school run by the infamous thinker Socrates. At this 'Thinkery,' students learn how to argue any side of any question, turning words into weapons and logic into loopholes. Convinced that a well-trained tongue can outwit his creditors, Strepsiades tries to master the art of argument - or, failing that, to recruit his son to do it for him. Presiding over it all is a surreal Chorus of Clouds, shifting between divine spectacle and biting commentary as old traditions collide with new learning. As father and son are pulled into a contest between 'Better' and 'Worse' arguments, the play skewers intellectual fads, public education, and the temptations of moral shortcuts. Funny, inventive, and surprisingly uneasy beneath its jokes, The Clouds asks what happens to a society when persuasion matters more than truth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:19) Chapter 02

(01:08:04) Chapter 03

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