The Frogs
Dionysus decides Athens has no poets left worth having and goes down to the underworld dressed as Heracles to fetch one back, with his slave Xanthias carrying the luggage and getting the better lines. After a chorus of frogs, a beating meant to establish which of the two is really a god, and a procession of the initiated, he finds Aeschylus and Euripides quarrelling over the chair of tragedy and is asked to judge between them. Written in the last year of the Peloponnesian War, it is at once broad farce and the earliest sustained work of dramatic criticism.
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- alludes to ↑ The Oresteia
- alludes to ↑ The Odyssey
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