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Aristophanes The Frogs (Characters (Dionysus (Feminine (Buskins (High…

- - - - Buskins
        
        High laced up boots
      - Heracles: "What's your regiment" (46)
        
        ie. Man or woman?
    - - Scared of Heracles and Hades
      - Disguise as Heracles
        
        To deter attackers
        
        Suggestion that Dionysus' own appearance isn't deterrence enough
    - - [To Heracles] "Notice how I frightened him" (40)
      - !!!!!!!! "I am a god"
        
        Highlights privilege and authority of upper class
        
        Dionysus' personality suggest that political 'gods' are just as vulnerable
- - - - Cleisthenes
        
        Effeminate man and passive homosexual
- - - - [Dionysus to Heracles]: "I defy you to find a genuine poet among the whole lot of them: one who can coin a memorable line"
        
        Conservatism
    - - [Dionysus]: "Where you get the boat, how to find the best restaurants,bakeries, boozers, knocking shops [brothels] and which places have the fewest creepy crawlies"
      - Heracles tells him to kill himself before finally directing Dionysus to Charon
        
        Via "rope and scaffold"
        
        Hemlock - executive route via 'pestle and mortar'
        
        Gives Dionysus 'cold feet'
        
        Jump off the tower in the Potter's Quarter
        
        [Dionysus]: "Just think about all that brain pudding"
        
        Corpse appears, carried by two pall bearers
        
        Encounter Charon
        
        Doesn't let Xanthias ride unless he fought in the sea battle
        
        Battle of Arginusae, 406BC
        
        Xanthias was exempted on eye trouble
        
        Can't see/sea
- - - - Living in marshes and bogs
      - "None can surpass us / In harmony sweetness and tone"
    - - Musical fight between the two
      - Dionysus eventually joins in with Brekekekex koax koax
  - - - Son of Demeter
      - Linked to Eleusinian Mysteries
        
        Agrarian cult
        
        Connected to abduction of Persephone
    - - Doesn't want the uninitiated, greedy politicians or boring poets
    - - Says they should forgive members of the oligarchic revolution