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During the year 405 B.C., Athens was a struggling nation because they were losing a war against Sparta. It was during this time that Aristophanes decided to write a play in order to promote the reversion to traditional values and to signify the influence provided by popular playwrights. The Frogs is one of the most notorious comedies written in Athenian history. This story illuminates values taught by popular playwrights through their stories, it entertains the audience, and it provides an opinion on democracy and philosophers though the eyes of Aristophanes.

In The Frogs, Aristophanes amuses the audience by using the reversal of social order. On the journey to find Euripides, Xanthias often talks back to Dionysus, despite being the salve …show more content…

In The Frogs, Euripides claims that his plays teach the audience "how to think" and to argue logic. This new way of thinking was fairly new to Athenians, it was also promoted by several philosophers and taught by sophists, but no one trusted philosophers or their questions because they claimed to be manipulating words to distort the truth. Aeschylus, aims to promote heroism and virtue in his plays, and this way of promoting successes was familiar to the citizens. His method of storytelling was favored because the citizens needed to feel happy and successful, despite the reality going on around them, which is portrayed and favored by Aristophanes himself. The story allows the playwrights to criticize each other which aids in signifying the differences between the two. Aeschylus claims that Euripides' poems are scrappy while Euripides believes that Aeschylus poems are glorified and "high-flown". Aristophanes portrays Euripides as a foolish person from the start because of his challenging Aeschylus and continues to disagree with his views by making them stand out as odd. Despite the fact the Dionysus was planning on bringing back Euripides, he instead chooses Aeschylus displaying the favoritism by Aristophanes towards

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