The Frogs

The play takes the form of a comic journey beyond the limits of the world, reminiscent in some ways of The Birds. As the Dead are encountered, they are used to speak the poet's own views and to plead for political harmony. At the end of the journey, a conversation between the two slaves, Xanthias and Aiakos, introduces the grand finale between Euripides and Aeschylus who is depicted as a Colonel Blimp.