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What is Frogs (Classical Texts) about?

"Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists Euripides and Sophocles; it was restaged a year later, a few weeks before a starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the long Peloponnesian War. Dionysus, the god of drama, wine and joyful celebration, goes down to the underworld to bring his favourite poet, Euripides, back from the dead, and surprises both himself and the audience by bringing back instead Aeschylus, who had died fifty years before, with the mission of saving both Athens and Tragedy from ruin. The contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus is the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text."--BOOK JACKET

Who reads Frogs (Classical Texts)?

Author

Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein (editor)

Publisher

Aris & Phillips Ltd

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780856682131

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24