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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Βάτραχοι, Bátrachoi, "Frogs") is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC, and received first place. The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens's tragedians, travels to Hades (the underworld) to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead. (Euripides had died the year before, in 406 BC).
Performance history in South Africa
Errol Ross, Neels Coetzee as Dionysos, Philip Godawa (CAPAB, 25 July to 13 August 1977).
Translations and adaptations
Translated from the Greek into Afrikaans as Die Paddas by Merwe Scholtz. Published by Perskor, 1978.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frogs
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