It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes� satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in...
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.
This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Frogs and Other Plays aloud.
Frogs and Other Plays is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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