Comedy · 1924

The Frogs

A comedy first produced at Athens in 405 BC

by Aristophanes

Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924)

Dionysus, sick of the dearth of good poets in Athens, travels to Hades with his slave Xanthias to bring Euripides back from the dead, and ends by judging a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides for the tragic throne, in which their verses are weighed in the scales.

Contents · 10 parts

• Persons of the Play5 lines
• Lines 1–160about 210 lines
• Lines 161–336about 240 lines
• Lines 337–478about 170 lines
• Lines 479–639about 210 lines
• Lines 640–846about 300 lines
• Lines 847–1008about 250 lines
• Lines 1009–1138about 220 lines
• Lines 1139–1308about 190 lines
• Lines 1309–1533about 280 lines

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