At this play's start, its hero curses the diminuative Philocrates for tricking him into buying a poor tracking animal, and later on he manages to trick a shyster into wishing for Corcyrean whips to transport him to land he wishes to steal.  
At this play's start, its hero curses the diminuative Philocrates for tricking him into buying a poor tracking animal, and later on he manages to trick a shyster into wishing for Corcyrean whips to transport him to land he wishes to steal.  This work's protagonist ejects both Cinesias, despite his stated need for poetic inspiration, as well as Iris, who demands a sacrifice be made to avoid war, and later interprets Triballu's gibberish as consent so that he may take a scepter and marry the goddess (*) Sovereignty.  The mathematician Meton is eventually enlisted to help the project of its heroes, who begin this play seeking the former king Tereus, who has changed into a Hoopoe; after praising him and his brethren as gods, they together form a polis to challenge the Olympians.  For 10 points, name this play in which Euelpides and Psithetaerus form the aerial kingdom of Cloudcuckooland, by Aristophanes.
At this play's start, its hero curses the diminuative Philocrates for tricking him into buying a poor tracking animal, and later on he manages to trick a shyster into wishing for Corcyrean whips to transport him to land he wishes to steal.  
The {Birds} [or {Ornithes}]