Creator
DIOGENES fl. 440-430 B.C.E.
Title
Cloud-Cuckoo Land c. 435 B.C.E.
Coverage
In Venetia
Publisher
Paulus Manutius
Date
1560
Subject
Lost in antiquity.
Description
Νεφελοκοκκυγία is a city in the sky, built by birds (with some Athenian help), and it symbolizes the dream land of fantasy and whimsical behavior. Similar to Cockaigne. With this play, Diogenes gave Aristophanes the idea for “The Birds.”
This play, like Teleclides’ Amphictyons, presented Diogenes’ audience with a vision of a new Golden Age, a time of peace and cornucopia.
This is the rarest of the Elzevir Republics, unrecorded in Willems' bibliography. With special thanks to FABS president Jennifer Larson for her great generosity in reuniting my copy with its original title page, which she discovered in Paris in 2018.
This play, like Teleclides’ Amphictyons, presented Diogenes’ audience with a vision of a new Golden Age, a time of peace and cornucopia.
This is the rarest of the Elzevir Republics, unrecorded in Willems' bibliography. With special thanks to FABS president Jennifer Larson for her great generosity in reuniting my copy with its original title page, which she discovered in Paris in 2018.
Source
Νεφελοκοκκυγία.
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