The protagonist of this work calls for a basin and pitcher in preparation for a "rhetorical banquet". Later, he beats an astronomer carrying a load of mathematical instruments after meeting a character who claims that the tragedies of Sophocles caused him to lose human form. In a negotiation including the barbarian Triballian, the protagonist secures Basileia as his wife, and earlier, humans' offerings to the Olympian gods are intercepted by a chorus summoned by Epops. For 10 points, name this play in which Peithetaerus leads the titular animals in the construction of Cloudcuckooland, a work of Aristophanes.
The protagonist of this work calls for a basin and pitcher in preparation for a "rhetorical banquet". Later, he beats an astronomer carrying a load of mathematical instruments after meeting a character who claims that the tragedies of Sophocles caused him to lose human form. In a negotiation including the barbarian Triballian, the protagonist secures Basileia as his wife, and earlier, humans' offerings to the Olympian gods are intercepted by a chorus summoned by Epops. For 10 points, name this play in which Peithetaerus leads the titular animals in the construction of Cloudcuckooland, a work of Aristophanes.
The protagonist of this work calls for a basin and pitcher in preparation for a "rhetorical banquet".