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Well, can't I say I've got such a load on me, That you must shift your pack to ease yourself. Go right ahead-but don't let me catch you saying this. What then? Can I say the really funny one? Dionysus Which always make the audience laugh? DionysusД«y Zeus, say what you want-except вЂњI'm hard pressedвЂќДЇorget that one, it's really quite annoying. Master, should I tell one of those usual jokes Dionysus canвЂ™t get enough of either of them. The rest of the play is the battle between the two tragedians:В the two of them stake their claims for their achievements and roast each otherвЂ™s poetry and music.

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Hijinks ensue with a series of Underworld residents.ДЇinally, the pair isВ admitted to the house, where they learn thereвЂ™s quite a commotion going on: Euripides has challenged the long-dead Aeschylus for the Throne of Tragedy, but there hasnвЂ™t been a knowledgeable judge to decide the case until the arrival of Dionysus. They knock on the door of the only to find that вЂњHeraclesвЂќ (Dionysus) doesnвЂ™t get the welcome he expects.

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Xanthias gets his revenge for having to walk, and the pair asks a band of Initiates of the Mysteries how to find PlutoвЂ™s house. On his way across the lake, Dionysus runs into some singing frogs, and then he reunites with Xanthias. They meet a Corpse during his funeral procession, and then Dionysus gets a ride with Charon the boatman (Xanthias has to walk). The hero tells the pair what to expect, and they go on their way. Dionysus, the god of parties and of drama, decides that the two phenomena are causally related, and he makes a plan to retrieve Euripides from the Underworld to save the city.Дionysus, equipped with a Heracles costume and accompanied by his slave Xanthias, visits his brother Heracles to ask advice about going to the Underworld, since, of course, Heracles has been thereВ before. Euripides, the great tragic playwright, has recently died, and Athens has undergone years of political turmoil.

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