As main character of this comedy we can mention Dionysus, Xanthias, Aeschylus, Euripides and the chorus of frogs. Aeschylus was the one who gave the best answer so the god of the Underworld allowed him to return to life in order to succor Athens in a moment when it really needed this. To make up his mind and end the debate between the two poets, Dionysus decided to take with him the one who would give the best advice about saving the city (Athens). At that point Dionysus found it difficult to decide which from them he had to take with him. At the end of the competition came the winner who was Aeschylus. One of them was the verses recitation from their plays. The competition included some activities.

The two poets competed with each other having as a judge, Dionysus. After the trip, Dionysus finally found Euripides, but he was in the middle of a conflict with the great Aeschylus to decide who the “Best Tragic Poet” was. It is important to mention that this is the only scene in the comedy that features the frogs (Aristophanes, pg. Once arrived to the river Charon, Dionysus heard a chorus of croaking frogs that were singing very beautifully. After they found the shorter way to arrive to Hades they went there. It tells the story of Dionysus, the god of the theatre, who traveled to Hades with his slave Xanthias to bring Euripides back from the hereafter. The present play is notable also as a piece of elaborate if not over-serious literary criticism from the pen of a great poet.“The Frogs” is one of the most popular comedies of Aristophanes and of the Greek Antiquity.

The hostility to Euripides displayed here and in several other plays, like his attacks on Socrates, is a result of this attitude of conservatism. Here, as elsewhere, he stands for tradition against innovation of all kinds, whether in politics, religion, or art. It is an admirable example of the brilliance of his style, and of that mingling of wit and poetry with rollicking humor and keen satirical point which is his chief characteristic. 'The Frogs' was produced the year after the death of Euripides, and that writer. He died shortly after the production of his 'Plutus,' in 388 B. Aristophanes seems, indeed, to have been regarded by his contemporaries as a man of noble character. The Attic comedy was produced at the festivals of Dionysus, which were marked by great license, and to this, rather than to the individual taste of the poet, must be ascribed the undoubted coarseness of many of the jests. His satire deal with political, religious, and literary topics, and with all its humor and fancy is evidently the outcome of profound conviction and a genuine patriotism. He is credited with over forty plays, eleven of which survive, along with the names and fragments of some twenty-six others. Aristophanes, the greatest of comic writers in Greek and in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has survived in complete form He was born in Athens about the middle of the fifth century B C, and had his first comedy produced when he was so young that his name was withheld on account of his youth.

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