1. Why was Frogs so successful?
This presentation of drama as educating and restoring is continued throughout the play; Euripides states that as well as technical skill, a poet should "make people into better citizens" and the Chorus declare that poets themselves were "clever and wise". Drama was so important in classical Greece that the Dionysiac festivals continued even in wartime, albeit with a reduced number of plays and it was the City Dionysia, encompassing all Greek States, which halted war temporarily, rather the work of the politicians. ...
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