What do the clouds say?
This post is focused around the first chorus song, the parodos, in the Clouds. This song introduces the choir to the audience and informs them how to perceive the chorus; you can do only so much with costumes and attributes, especially in antiquity. As such, we can learn a lot on the nature of clouds according to the Greek in the 5th century BCE. Being personified godlike characters, the clouds reveal not only how they act as natural phenomena, but also as divine beings (although the divine aspect is a satirical jest of Aristophanes, yet there must lie some truth beneath this association).