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I don't like Aristophanes. Perhaps it's in part because his political humour is based on things that, while I can study them and look them up and piece apart why it's funny, I can't understand in the way the intended audience could. Sometimes it's because it's just crude and silly.

Really held up over time !

Utterly joyous

surprisingly enjoyable comedy, chortled a few times!

Aristophanes is a god of a comedy writer and political critic, and he definitely did a great job of Frogs as far as I've read it in the original Greek, but this translation has ct some of the more rude jokes and has not obeyed the rule of faithful translating. I can never recommend such an edition to anyone.

You probably won’t laugh out loud unless you really hate Socrates.

I love reading the ancients - it's humbling when we tend to think we're so superior in this day and age.

Good book but not a quick nor easy read. I've literally stood where the ancient Greeks performed such plays and it is nice to have finally read some of them. These were part morality plays and part attacks on rivals. I should have been paying more attention to the footnotes sooner. I guess sometimes i'm an arrogant reader and think i can just read without paying attention to all the footnotes. Or, perhaps i just like to get into the flow of the book and won't want distractions, even in the form of footnotes. For these plays, the footnotes are critical to getting the most of the experience - unless i guess you are a world-class expert in ancient Greek personalities and language.

*3.4
Women at the Thesmophoria > Wasps > Frogs

Women at the Thesmophoria
Amazing, hilarious, and sassy. The end where Euripides' plays were parodied extensively was very well done.

Wasps
Less funny, but still a very silly portrayal of court practices in ancient Athens.

Frogs
My least favorite. If I knew all of Euripides' and Aeschylus' plays, this would have been more endurable. But the Chorus just kept going... On and on and on...

Aristophanes was a great comedic playwright and his double entendres and burns are right on point.

Most certainly my favorite lot of Aristophanes' extant works, of which 'Frogs' is likely my favorite of any of his plays, primarily because it perfectly caps off my reading of the Greek tragedians and thereby ending Old Comedy.

Hilarious and supremely entertaining , there's never a dull moment! Frogs steals the show. Not only does it have the sassiest dialogues but the hits keep on coming one after the other. This is a must read for the ones who are familiar with Greek tragedies; and for the ones who are not.