Anywhere: Aristophanes The Frogs (Keywords)

Unlike many other cultural values that shift and evolve from decade to decade, comedy can be timeless. The comic masterpiece The Frogs, penned by famed Greek playwright Aristophanes more than 2,000 years ago, will leave today's readers doubled over with laughter. When the god Dionysus b...

This text contains three plays by Aristophanes - 'The Frogs', 'The Wasps' and 'The Poet and the Women'. Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations.

In Frogs Dionysus is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides. In Assemblywomen Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. In Wealth the god Wealth is cured of his blindness.