Question

In one play, actors dressed as these objects say that the play cost the author “much trouble,” and that he regards it his best, in a parabasis (0[1])(“pah-rah-BAY-sis”). The protagonist of that play is introduced to these “goddesses for the lazy” after his son goes into debt betting on horses. (20[2])These objects (20[1])form the chorus in a play (20[1])in which the protagonist’s attempts to become a great orator (20[1])lead him (20[1])to be (0[1])(*) beaten (10[1])by his son. (10[2])These (10[1])inanimate objects (10[2]0[1])partly (10[1])name a location (10[1])that Pisthetaerus (10[1])(“piss-tuh-TAIR-uss”) builds (10[3])with help from the (10[1])hoopoe (10[2])in The Birds. (10[2])These objects title a play (10[1])in which (10[1])Strepsiades (10[3])(“strep-SIGH-uh-deez”) enrolls in the Thinkery. (10[1])Socrates (10[1])appears in an Aristophanes (“ah-riss-TAH-fuh-neez”) play titled (10[1])after, for 10 points, what objects, which in the name of an Aristophanes setting precedes “cuckoo land?” (0[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: clouds [accept The Clouds; or cloud cuckoo land; or Nephelai or Nephelokokkygia; prompt on goddesses with “in the form of what objects?”]
<Joseph Krol, Literature - European - Drama&gt; ~24744~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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Summary

2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3494%18%0%83.53

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Adam WilliamsNorthmont ADetroit Catholic Central C8310
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