TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Mr_Westerfield t3_10om0ud on January 29, 2023 at 11:22 PM in todayilearned 90 comments 780
BrokenEye3 t1_j6fm9o5 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 12:06 AM To a given value of "utopian". The birds in the play are a bit, well, batty. Props to them for usurping the gods, though. Permalink 9
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