Introduction / David J. Littlefield -- The opening of the Frogs / Leo Strauss -- Stage and action in the Frogs / David Barrett -- The Dionysus of the Frogs / Etienne Lapalus -- The Eleusinian mysteries / George E. Mylonas -- The parodos in Aristophanes' Frogs / M. Tierney -- The parabasis of the Frogs / Maurice Croiset -- The character of Dionysus and the unity of the Frogs / Charles Paul Segal -- A view of Euripides / Gilbert Murray -- The literary criticism of the Frogs / G.M.A. Grube -- Death and life : the Frogs / Cedric H. Whitman -- The death of tragedy / Bruno Snell -- A portrait of Aristophanes / Margaret Bieber -- Victory at Arginusae / Benjamin Bickley Rogers -- The Lenaean Festival - the audience / W.B. Stanford -- Comedy and society / K.J. Dover -- Farce in the Frogs / Gilbert Norwood -- Frogs at Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- From The New York Times : 2,371 years after