Characters in the Clouds
(in order of appearance)
| Strepsiades: | cranky, put-upon father who knows that the way to win in Athens is in court. Not the quickest-thinking citizen in town. |
| Pheidippides: | Strepsiades’ drinking and gambling son. Can’t be bothered to clean up or pay for his own messes. |
| Students of the Pondertorium: | pupils at Aristophanes’ sendup of Athenian education. |
| Socrates: | the famous philosopher, Aristophanes style. |
| Chorus of Clouds: | our goddesses for the duration. |
| Superior and Inferior Argument: | embodiments of rhetoric, good and bad. |
| Pasias, Amynias: | Strepsiades owes them money because of Pheidippides’ gambling. |
| Houseboy, Xanthias, Witness: | the little people who make the world work. |
