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Mar 2020
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Frogs Ribbit On Route to the Underworld ...

Liv Albert
About this episode

We all need a laugh: Aristophanes' The Frogs is exactly that. This is part one of two.

 

CW/TW: comedic references to suicide.

 

Sources: Aristophanes' The Frogs, translated by David Barrett; Aristophanes' Frogs and Other Plays, translated by Stephen Halliwell.

 

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