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The Frogs

by Aristophanes (-450–-388)

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  • 55 min read
  • 9 chapters
  • Reading level: 5th grade

"The Frogs" by Aristophanes is a comedy performed in 405 BC. The god Dionysus journeys to the underworld with his slave Xanthias to rescue the playwright Euripides, hoping to save Athenian theater from decline. Along the way, Dionysus disguises himself as Heracles and faces comical mishaps. In Hades, he judges a fierce debate between Euripides and Aeschylus over who deserves the throne of tragic poetry, blending irreverent humor with sharp commentary on literature and Athenian politics.

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  • Comedy plays
  • Greek drama (Comedy) · Translations into English
  • Voyages to the otherworld
  • Dionysus (Greek deity)
  • Playwriting
  • Dramatists
  • Aristophanes · Translations into English

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Introductory Note

By Aristophanes

The Harvard Classics

Edited By Charles W Eliot Lld

Nine Greek Dramas

By Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides And Aristophanes

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Contents

  1. Volume 8
  2. Introductory Note
  3. Dio
  4. Heracles
  5. Dio. I
  6. Frogs
  7. Dio
  8. Chor
  9. Xan. O! O!
  10. Chor

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This free edition of The Frogs by Aristophanes comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #7998, released 2005-04-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Plays/Films/Dramas, Mythology, Legends & Folklore, Classics of Literature.

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