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Prologue
Two fed-up Athenians, Pisthetaerus and Euelpides, have left the city with a pair of birds to find Tereus, the hoopoe who was once human.
Parabasis
The bird chorus steps forward and addresses the audience directly, dropping the dramatic fiction. They offer a comic cosmogony, a made-up origin story in which birds existed befor…
The Building of Cloud Cuckoo Land
Construction of the sky city gets underway, and a parade of Athenian opportunists shows up wanting a piece of the new order.
The Siege of Olympus
The gods send three ambassadors to negotiate: Poseidon, Heracles, and a barbarian god named Triballus. Pisthetaerus receives them while cooking a meal of birds convicted of treaso…
Epilogue
The play closes with a wedding celebration. Pisthetaerus marries Sovereignty and is hailed as the new king of the universe.
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