Cloud cuckoo land

  • The Playwright Aristophanes (c.446 – c.386 BCE) wrote a Play called ‘The Birds’ first shown in 414 BCE.
  • The Hero, Pisthetaerus, asks the birds to create a city in the sky, which will control all the messages between the Gods and Mankind. He named the city ‘Cloud cuckoo land’ or in Greek, ‘Nephelokokkygia’.

 

Everyday Expressions that come from Ancient Greece
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