Development of Ancient Greek Tragedy as Traced from Aristophanes’ The Frogs
Aristophanes’ The Frogs is a comedy, a latter genre of literature, but beneath its extravagant caricatures, he has some serious purpose. In the second part of the play there is a debate competition at the dinner table of Hades between Aeschylus and Euripides to acquire the seat of 'Best Tragic Poet' . The contest is held with Dionysus as judge. Actually, through this debate we can trace a development of ancient Greek tragedy—how the Greek tragedy was developed, from Aeschylus, in the hands of Sophocles and Euripides , especially of Euripides. A long line of philosophers --which includes Plato , Aristotle , Saint Augustine , Diderot , Voltaire , Hume , Hegel , Schopenhauer , Nietzsche , Kier...