More than any other of Aristophanes’ plays, Frogs was centred upon Athens and it is the worry for the city’s political, military and social problems that made it so successful. The play’s main concern, revealed in the parabasis, is the prominence of ‘rascals’ and ‘knaves’ who now inhabit the assembly. Frogs suggests that these men are not as ‘honest, capable [and] patriotic’ as they should be, but inefficient and corrupt. The advice to the audience is to trust and support the ‘men of good birth and breeding’ as they are desperately ‘needed by the nation’, otherwise, Athens ‘will come to grief’. This idea is reiterated several times throughout the play, most memorably in comparison with Athenian coinage. The metaphor asserts that the ‘loyal kinsmen’, such as

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