politics, religion, or art. The hostility to Euripides displayed here
and in several other plays, like his attacks on Socrates, is a result
of this attitude of conservatism. The present play is notable also as a
piece of elaborate if not over-serious literary criticism from the pen
of a great poet._

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THE FROGS


OF ARISTOPHANES



DRAMATIS PERSONA


THE GOD DIONYSUS

XANTHIAS, _his slave_

AESCHYLUS

EURIPIDES

HERACLES

PLUTO