Karisa Liu

“The Chorus of Eleusinian Initiates lead Dionysus and Aeschylus off in a torchlight procession recalling the inspirational finale of Aeschylus’ Oresteia.”
― Aristophanes, Frogs

“Frogs embraces two transcendent issues, the decline of Athens as a great power, as the long Peloponnesian War (431-404) approached its end, and the decline of tragedy as a great form of art, with the recent deaths of the last two preeminent tragedians.”
― Aristophanes, Frogs

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“In the second half of the play he arbitrates a contest between the poets Aeschylus and Euripides for pre-eminence in the art of tragedy.”
― Aristophanes, Frogs