Frogs and Other Plays
Aristophanes Aristophanes, Aristophanes
ISBN: | 9780140449693 |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
Published: | 6 April, 2007 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Frogs and Other Plays
Aristophanes Aristophanes, Aristophanes
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In Frogs , written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity...
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