The Frogs
Aristophanes staged a comedy about which dead playwright should be brought back to save Athens — Aeschylus or Euripides — and invented literary criticism as entertainment.
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Why It Matters
Aristophanes staged a comedy about which dead playwright should be brought back to save Athens — Aeschylus or Euripides — and invented literary criticism as entertainment. The play is the earliest surviving work that seriously debates what makes art good or bad. It also contains some of the funniest scenes in ancient comedy.
The 
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Personal reviewSecond favorite Aristophanes after the clouds. Team Aeschylus all the way. The slave and Dionysus switching scene was great and the debate between Euripedes and Aeschylus was great
Notable Quotes
“It's not the poet's job to teach them what is right — they know that when they're children. The poet teaches what is noble.”