A Comedy - The Frogs: Characters

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Who is Dionysus?
He is the main character of the play, he is the God of Drama
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What un-godlike features does he have?
He is cowardly, foolish, silly and is bossed around by lower status characters
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Who is Xanthias?
He is Dionysus' slave and helper
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What is unusual about his character?
He has a lot of freedom and is continuously rude to Dionysus despite his lower status
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What is the point of this strange master/slave relationship?
It is amusing for the sudience to see a God being treated badly, and provides humour through role reversal
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Who is Heracles?
Dionysus' brother, another son of Zeus
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Who is Charon?
A judge of the dead, he is the keeper to the river styx and the ferryman to the underworld
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Who is Pluto?
God of the Underworld
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Who is Euripides?
The poet Dionysus originally sets out to retrieve from the underworld
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Who is Aeschyltus?
The poet Dionysus ends up bringing back from the underworld
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Why the change of heart?
It turns out that Aeschyltus is better for Athens then Euripides is
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What un-godlike features does he have?

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What is unusual about his character?

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