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‘“Frogs”. This is a literary comedy. In “Frogs”, (405BC; Greek Batrarchoi) Dionysus, the god of drama, is concerned about the poor quality of present-day tragedy now that his recent favourite, Euripides, is dead. Dionysus disguises himself as the hero Heracles and goes down to Hades to bring Euripides back to the land of the living. As a result, however, of a competition arranged between Euripides* and his great predecessor, Aeschylus, Dionysus is won over to the latter’s cause and returns to earth with Aeschylus, instead, as the one more likely to help Athens in its troubles.

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*(whom Aristophanes parodied in ‘Women at the Thesmophoria’)

**[– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20]: 398]

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