Drama
The Frogs
"The Frogs" by Aristophanes is a comedy performed in 405 BC. The god Dionysus journeys to the underworld with his slave Xanthias to rescue the playwright Euripides, hoping to save Athenian theater from decline. Along the way, Dionysus disguises himself as Heracles and faces comical mishaps. In Hades, he judges a fierce debate between Euripides and Aeschylus over who deserves the throne of tragic poetry, blending irreverent humor with sharp commentary on literature and Athenian politics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading ease score: 91.4 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Originally issued 2005-04-01.
Transcribed by Text file produced by Ted Garvin, Marvin A. Hodges, Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamHTML file produced by David Widger.
This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7998).
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The Frogs
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