Everything Frogs!!

• When was Frogs written?

  405 BC
• Who wrote Frogs?

  Aristophanes
• Where did Frogs place at the Lenaia?

  First place!
• …one the audience always laughs at? (Xanthias)
• I’ll fart it all away (Xanthias)
• Lycis and Ameipsias always have baggage-handling routines in their comedies (Xanthias)
• I come away with a year off my life (Dionysus)
• Why didn’t I fight in that sea-battle! (Xanthias)
• Look at that lionskin on top of your little yellow number (Heracles)
• Well, you were with Cleisthenes (Heracles)
• Even though he’s dead? (Heracles)
• I need a good poet. Those that aren’t dead are dreadful (Dionysus)
• A good poet [Agathon], a good friend, much missed (Dionysus)
• A flock of artistic tits twittering away (Dionysus)
• You couldn’t find an original poet able to construct a noble phrase (Dionysus)
• That must be some kind of choke [joke] (Dionysus)
• Downhill route (Heracles)
• And heres a corpse they’re bringing now (Dionysus)
• Strike me alive if… (Corpse)
• I happened to have a bit of an eye infection at the time (Xanthias)
• You’re seat’s here, fatty (Charon)
• I am beginning to feel a pain - in the arse (Dionysus)
• BRE-KE-KE-KEX, CO-AX, CO-AX (Dionysus)
• Where is it? … Get behind me … Get in front (Dionysus)
• And the other one’s made of cow-poo (Xanthias)
• Priest, save me - I’ll get you a drink after the show (Dionysus)
• After the storm, a calm weasel (Xanthias)
• I am afraid your tunic’s turned brown from fright (Xanthias)
• Those who delight in buffoons who quip with a poor sense of timing (Chorus of Initiates)
• The magistrate who, when our city’s storm-tossed, lines his pockets and betrays a garrison or crew (Chorus of Initiates)
• That creep Thorycion (Chorus of Initiates)
• The politician who takes a bite out of a comic playwright’s earning when mocked in our traditional worship of Dionysus (Chorus of Initiates)
• I’ve lot’s of jokes to tell and much to say in earnest too (Chorus of Initiates)
• Cleisthenes’ arsehole is plucking out its hairs (Chorus of Initiates)
• Hippoknickers’ son … hunting pussy in fitted lionskin pants (Chorus of Initiates)
• [very serious mythological threat..] I’ll just run off and get them (Aeacus)
• It [his heart] was frightened and crept down to my bowels (Dionysus)
• Not Heracles, but Xanthacles (Xanthias)
• This slave will accompany me and bring my things (Xanthias)
• That’s him. That’s how he behaves all the time [when Dionysus is being accused of Heracles’ wrongdoings] (Xanthias)