# The Birds — The Birds character guide

> The Birds in The Birds by Aristophanes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pisthetaerus Birds

**First appearance:** 0002-the-birds

## Snapshot

The feathered multitude Pisthetaerus and Euelpides recruit into a winged city, equal parts chorus, army, and restless citizenry with their own ancient claims.

## Who they are

Once scattered across the skies as tribes with their own customs, the birds are persuaded to gather as a single people and build a city in the clouds. Their eagerness for a glorious new order is shadowed by old grievances against human bird-catchers and by the question of who among them will truly rule. As the settlement takes shape, their songs, labor, and squabbles turn an idle scheme into a living polity, making them the beating heart of the play's comic ambition.

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