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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS

Frogs ( Batrachoi , Lat. Rānae ), Greek comedy by Aristophanes which won the first prize at the Lenaea in Athens in 405 BC and earned its author a crown of sacred olive, as well as the right to produce it a second time. It gives expression to the city's literary attitudes and political plight at that time. The great tragic poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, are all dead, the last two only recently; Athens, despite her victory in the sea-battle at Arginusae the previous year, is exhausted; she badly needs sound advice such as might be given by the best poets. The play opens ...

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