Still out to sea aboard the Cleisthenes and having just read Andromeda, Dionysus is pumped and ready to get back to his theater in Athens so he can get to work improving the world of the arts for the good of everyone. It's a hodgepodge of ancient wit, Pythonesque animation, Renaissance artwork, and public domain classical music all wrapped up in a ball of irreverent humor from a mind way too influenced by the likes of Terry Practhett and Jasper Fforde. It rejects the current consensus which finds a teleological impetus. The Frogs is a point-and-click adventure game based on the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. This chapter provides a new reading of the contest of tragedians in Aristophanes Frogs. He's decided it's up to him to set things right. Back in his day the likes of Euripides could tear apart a stage and leave the crowd screaming for more. Mumble poets and people using automatons to speak their lines. It's the playwrights the kids listen to these days. And now some other king in Thebes is talking smack. This permission does not include the right to reproduce the graphics on any other media without the express written consent of Dramatic Publishing.Dionysus, the god of wine, is feeling somber. The graphics and all other text including author credits, title, etc., may not be manipulated in any way. The permission to manipulate any of the posters on our website is strictly limited to the production promotion box at the bottom of the poster. Poster permissions: Please note that while the posters are customizable, the graphics and credits on each poster are not. They might even be able to increase the size of the poster for you (although some loss of resolution will occur).
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#The frogs aristophanes update#
Directors have permission to update the references. This is not an attempt to rewrite an immortal classic, but rather an effort to help modern audiences (especially young ones who may have a tendency to regard classics as stuffy) to understand Aristophanes' satire.
To simulate the author's satirical stabs at the inferior poets of Ancient Greece, we have replaced the Grecian literary allusions with references to current television programs and popular songs. Unfortunately, nearly all of Aristophanes' allusions to the writers of his day are meaningless to modern audiences. The trip is a fearful one, and Bacchus, one of the less godly gods, dies a thousand comic deaths along the way. Greece was left without a first-rate tragic poet, so Bacchus set out for Hades to find Euripides.