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Works of Aristophanes: The Frogs (405 B.C.)
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Frogs (405 B.C.)
Background:
Aristophanes' The Frogs was produced at the Festival of the Lenaea, where
it won first prize. Its theme is literary and contains few bawdy elements, but
it is not well-constructed or witty. Its popularity is more likely based on
its inoffensiveness to prudes than on its artistic merits.
Characters:
Dionysus The god of fertility and wine, who disguises himself as Heracles to
get Euripides back from Hades.
Xanthias Dionysus' slave.
The tragic playwrights, in Hades.
Aeschylus
Euripides
Heracles Famous hero of the "twelve labors" ...
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