My apologies.

I was going to go in-depth into The Clouds but real life got in the way. As per usual :o(

Anyhoo – the sources are freely available to y’all to check.

Here is the NC CONCLUSION about Aristophanes’ play THE CLOUDS

 

CONCLUSIONS.

Apparently, in the drama of Aristophanes “Clouds” the gospel story is described: the story of the greedy traitor Judas Iscariot and the execution of Christ. “Clouds” are considered as a SECOND source. At the same time, Scaligerian history assures us that the life of Christ is described exclusively in religious primary sources. As we see, this is not true.

 Probably, the basis of the “Clouds” was a kind of old, probably later lost text. He was Christian and quite respectfully described the story of Judas Iscariot and the execution of Christ. However, then, in the era of the Reformation, the drama was subjected to biased processing. Throughout the work scattered mocking remarks addressed to Socrates-Christ and his disciples. Thus, they gave the Clouds the look of a mocking parody of Christianity. Then they completely forgot about the Christian content of the drama, and they began to consider it simply as a kind of “story from ancient life.”

In conclusion, we note that now that the true essence of many ancient texts has become much clearer, they are becoming much more interesting. For example, Aristophanes’ Clouds “are usually considered a boring poem. Indeed, it is unlikely that a modern reader can be carried away by rather primitive jokes and mockery scattered throughout the text. But as soon as we discovered that all this “humor” was most likely brought here by later editors, and as soon as it became clear that “Clouds” is an old New Testament text that speaks of Christ and of Judas Iscariot, then immediately interest in the drama rises sharply. The same thing is happening now with many other old sources. A new look at history turns them from half-forgotten and supposedly dull texts into fascinating stories about the past.