For 10 points, name this Athenian comedy concerning the floating city of the title winged creatures, which is named Cloudcuckooland, a work of Aristophanes.
This work begins with two men seeking a king in a thicket; they ask him to awaken his wife to call their companions together. In a later part, that group proclaims that its close relationship to primordial deities makes it more divine than the gods. The king, Hoopoe, and his wife, Procne, order their companions to build a city in the sky to block the mortal world's access to the gods of Olympus, and after Iris's detection and Heracles's defeat, Pisthetaerus is crowned king of the city. For 10 points, name this Athenian comedy concerning the floating city of the title winged creatures, which is named Cloudcuckooland, a work of Aristophanes.
This work begins with two men seeking a king in a thicket; they ask him to awaken his wife to call their companions together.
The Birds [accept Ornithes]