Aristophanes Frogs Quotes

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Created on: 14-05-19 11:43

'His smooth tongue unfurls... champing at the indignant bit... picking away at the words he's split till its all puff and nonsense'

Chorus of Initiates about Euripides

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'My poetry has not died with me as it has with him'

Aeschylus

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'The politician who takes a bite out of a comic playwright's earnings'

Chorus of Initiates

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'Once they've got their hands on a tragic chorus, they **** on the opportunity’

Dionysus

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‘It’s the base-metalled, copper-toned foreigners and criminals we rely on for everything, the scum of the earth’

Chorus of Initiates

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‘I need a witness! I appeal to the gods!’

Xanthias

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‘I suppose you saw the father-killers and oath breakers he told us about’

Dionysus

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‘My drama was democratic’

Euripides

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'After the storm a calm weasel'

Xanthias quoting Hegelochus

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'Bre-ke-ke-kex co-ax co-ax'

Chorus of Frogs

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Card 2

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'My poetry has not died with me as it has with him'

Back

Aeschylus

Card 3

Front

'The politician who takes a bite out of a comic playwright's earnings'

Back

Card 4

Front

'Once they've got their hands on a tragic chorus, they **** on the opportunity’

Back

Card 5

Front

‘It’s the base-metalled, copper-toned foreigners and criminals we rely on for everything, the scum of the earth’

Back

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Aristophanes Frogs Quotes