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Contents: Prologue 1Parodos 1Lyric-scene 1Parabasis 1Episode 1Choral 1Lyric-scene 2Agon 1Choral 2Lyric-scene 3Episode 2Exodus 1 |
Aristophanes, Frogs (ed. Matthew Dillon)
Euripides
Editions and translations: Greek (ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart) | English (ed. Matthew Dillon)
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Dionysus
What is this phlattothrat? Is it from Marathon, or
where did you assemble these songs of a rope-twister?
Aeschylus
Well, to a fine place from a fine place did I
bring them, lest I be seen garnering from the same meadow as Phrynichos.
But this guy gets them from everywhere, from little whores,
Meletus' drinking songs, Carian flute solos,
Dirges, dances. This will all be made clear immediately.
Someone bring in a lyre. And yet, what need
of a lyre for this guy? Where's the girl who clacks the castanets? Hither, Muse of Euripides,
for whom these songs are appropriate to sing.
Dionysus
This Muse never did the Lesbian thing, oh no..
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