The Frogs by Aristophanes

The Frogs by Aristophanes is a greek comedy play. It is about the Athenian society in that day. Aristophanes wrote this play when Athens was at war with Sparta for over twenty-five years and it was produced in Athens in 405 BC. This play talks about the characters: Dionysus, Xanthias, Haracles, Charon, Aeacus, Plthane, Hostess, Pluto Presephone, Aeschylus, and Euripides.

Summary of the Play:

Euripides, who wanted to claim the tragedian Chair from Aescylus caused a problem in the Underworld. Pluto, the god of the Underworld, is distrupted and annoyed by the uprise and he sends Dionysus to judge which poet was better. Dionysus pretends and dresses like Hercules and goes to the poets to judge the problem. Later on in the play, Dionysus confronts the two poets and judges which poet had better poetry. Dionysus becomes very amused when he sees the two poets fighting with the words from the poetry. At the end, Dionysus makes Aeschylus the winner. Euripides becomes very devastated, and in the end, everyone left the underworld.