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| Scene 1 | Scene 2 | Scene 3 | Scene 4 | Scene 5 | Scene 6 |
| Strepsiades laments his son's horse-racing addiction and love of horses. Phedippides resists his father's pleas to change and become a student of Socrates to learn how to win law cases | Strepsiades enrolls himself in the Pondertorium and quickly proves his stupidity. Socrates enters and intitates him into the wisdom of the new gods, the Clouds, who appear when called | Socrates continues to try to teach Strepsiades in the ways of Sophistry. Eventually the topic shifts to learning unjust arguments. The Clouds urge him to bring his son | Father teaches son his new "wisdom" and convinces him to visit Socrates, who in turn refuses to teach him, so the Superior and Inferior Arguments (i.e. Philosophy and Sophistry) come out, arguing, of course, about which is better. Inferior wins. | Strepsiades returns to get his son, who has learned well. Too well, in fact. Creditors appear to demand repaymentof loans, and Strepsiades evades them with legalisms | Phedippides, realizing laws are merely arbitrary conventions, beats his father. They argue to the Clouds about who is right. Strepsiades decides to burn down the Pondertorium. |
| Parabasis | Chorus | Chorus | Chorus | ||
| Why don't you like this play? It's better than the rest! And we Clouds are wonderful gods | Worship the Clouds! | We should get the first prize | The old guy is going to regret this soon! |
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