At the end of this play, the chorus chants "O Hymen, Hymenaeus!"
Karolos Koun's 1959 production of this play at the Art Theater in Athens scandalously spliced in a Byzantine ecclesiastical chant during a mock prayer interrupted by the dismissal of the priest for chanting too long a list of names. This play's chorus recites a genealogy declaring that the title creatures are the offspring of Eros and Chaos. At the end of this play, the chorus chants "O Hymen, Hymenaeus!" in honor of the protagonist's wedding to the girl who manages (*) Zeus's thunderbolts. In this play, two Athenians chew on a root that makes them sprout wings, and then lead an effort to build a city-state to obstruct access between humanity and the Olympian gods. For 10 points, name this play in which Pisthetaerus promotes the construction of the aerial haven Cloudcuckooland, the longest comedy by Aristophanes.
Karolos Koun's 1959 production of this play at the Art Theater in Athens scandalously spliced in a Byzantine ecclesiastical chant during a mock prayer interrupted by the dismissal of the priest for chanting too long a list of names.
The Birds [or Ornithes]