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The Frogs:

In January 405 B.c. Athens was not a cheerful city. At Decelea, only a few miles away, the Spartans lay encamped: not many months before, they had marched right up to the city walls, 30,000 strong, _and the Athenians had only just managed to man the defences in time. And now Lysander, the Spartan admiral, supported by Cyrus the Persian, was preparing for the spring offensive in which he hoped to inflict the final blow on the Athenian fleet.

The god, here represented as a paunchy but still handsome middle-aged man-about-town, is dressed in the yellow robe appropriate to a Dionysiac festival, which resembles a woman's garment, and in the buskins or high laced-up boots of a tragic actor — these also have a somewhat feminine look. Over the robe he wears a lion-skin, and in his hand is an enormous club: he has attempted to disguise himself as HERACLES. He is on foot, but his slave is riding a donkey. The slave is laden with bundles of bedding and other packages, many of which are suspended from a stout pole which rests across his shoulder.

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