Aristophanes' Frogs

Comedy at Athens

Aristophanes and his Athenian audience

What happens in Frogs? (The plot)

Agôn Sophias : judging the arts in classical Greece

Old and new styles in tragedy : Aeschylus, Euripides, and the rest

Underworld and afterlife : Dionysus and Greek fantasies of salvation

Dionysus' verdict and the ending/message of the play

Reading and performing Frogs after Aristophanes : reception.