Frogs Scholarship

• What does David Konstanz believe about Old Comedy?

  The important feature is the main character being "reconciled with society" at the end of the play. For example, Dionysus bringing back Aeschylus to "save Athens"
• What does CW Marshall say about the Chorus in Frogs?

  It uses the style of the parados which makes the audience think they are the proper chorus
• How did Arcogs describe Aristophanes?

  "greatest master of the genre"
• How does Russel describe Dionysus's character?

  "Coward, buffoon and literary critic"
• What did Bettendorf believe the primary function of the play to be?

  "The primary function of the play isn't literary criticism but political action"
• How does Cartledge describe Frogs?

  "The finest of Aristophanes's surviving plays
• What did Dover believe Aeschylus and Euripides to represent?

  "Aeschylus represented the fighting off the Persians and creating the Athenian empire, Euripides is the poet of more precarious days
• How does Redfield describe Aeschylus's victory?

  "A rejection of the new lifestyle and a return to the old moral centre."
• What did Macdowell believe about the gods' stance on comedy

  "The gods were assumed to be sensible enough to take a joke."
• What does Dover state about contemporary figures who were named in comedy?

  "Everyone who was recorded as well-known in historical sources is ridiculed or attacked in comedy."