The Frogs
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Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 2, Scene 1
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All Themes Old vs. New The Value of Art Literary Criticism Critique of Athenian Democracy Appearance vs. Reality
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All Characters Dionysus Xanthias Euripides Aeschylus Pluto Alcibiades Sophocles Frog-Chorus Initiate-Chorus
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The Frogs

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Aristophanes

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The Scale

The scale that Pluto provides to “weigh” Euripides’s and Aeschylus’s poetry symbolizes the value of poetry, the superiority of old values over new values, and the overall practice of literary criticism. After Euripides…

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