... need for a repeat performance indicates that the play had more than a simple comic appeal. 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 ... this very reason; he requires a poet "who can write" in order to "save the city". This presentation of drama as educating and restoring is continued throughout the play; Euripides states that as well as technical skill, a ... continued even in wartime, albeit with a reduced number of plays and it was the City Dionysia, encompassing all Greek States, which ...

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