Aristophanes: Clouds by Kenneth Dover

A comprehensive and authoritative commentary on the play, keyed to the original Greek text, published by Oxford University’s Clarendon Press in 1968. The text explores many aspects of the play’s literary, satirical, cultural, and historical context.

Religion and Politics in Aristophanes’ Clouds by Marie Marianetti

Published by Olms-Weidmann in 1992, this is a scholarly exploration of the cultic and religious elements underlying Socrates’s teaching in Clouds, which bears similarities to the Eleusinian Mysteries and Pythagoreanism.