To the citizens of Athens in 405 BC, The Frogs would have been a hilarious comedy with a sting in the tail in the form of a objective message on the current political state of Athens. According to Mrs Harding, stand in Classics teacher, The Frogs:
...was written as a funny play with a message at the butt of the jokes.
As this quotation shows, not only does Mrs Harding have a sound grasp of classics, but that Aristophanes used his humour to convey a serious message. When the leader of the chorus says the fateful words, in the parabasis he is merely showing the poets beliefs; i.e.: portraying Aristophanes’ v
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