Frogs

• "Priest, save me - I'll get you a drink after the show."

  • Dionysus talking to priest
  • 4th wall break
• "Lady, honoured daughter of Demeter"

  • chorus of inititates
  • about persephone
• "For our fruitful queen, the goddess Demeter"

  • chorus of initiates
• "You are the most cowardly of gods - and men."

  • Xanthias about Dionysus
  • mockery of the divine
• "It was my tongue that swore, I'll take Aeschlyus."

  • Dionysus at Euripides
  • shows his own wits when maneuvering around prior promises
• "How can anyone save a city like that when it rejects both the cloak and the goatskin?"

  • Aeschlyus
  • how Athens refuses to work together
• "One shouldn't raise a lion cub in the city, but once it's grown, you better treat it well."

  • Aeschlyus on Alcibaides
• "I hate a man who's slow to aid his country, but quick to do deep harm."

  • Euripides on Alcibaides
• "Hecate"

  • aeschlyus references the crossroads goddess
  • at a crossroads - a choice is to be made
• "Oedipus at first was a lucky man..." - Euripides

  "No he wasn't. Misfortune was in his nature." - Aeschylus
• "You taught people to waste time in idle chatter and gossip. It's emptied the gyms."

  • Aeschylus at Euripides
• "Children have teachers to instruct them, young men have poets."

  • Aeschlyus
• "Demeter, who nourishes my mind, make me worthy of your mysteries."

  • aeschlyus praying to demeter before the competition
• "I pray to other gods." - Euripides

  "Your own personal ones, new currency?" - Dionysus

  "Very much so." - Euripides

  • rise in sophistry
• "To think, he didn't beat you when you answered back!"

  • slave at xanthias
  • attitude towards slaves
• "Our city treats her finest citizens like vintage coins and the new gold...but rather than them we use these base bronze things."

  • chorus leader
  • metaphor for the corrupt politicians of athens
• "The magistrate who, when our city's storm-tossed, lines his pockets and betrays a garrison or crew."

  • chorus of initiates about corrupt politicians
• "Thorycion, runs contraband from Aegina, while creaming off the five percent, and traffics to Epidaurus row-lock padding, ropes and tar."

  • chorus of initiates
  • thorycion - corrupt officer, wartime profiteering, still alive at time of play