The Frogs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Frogs, credited to Aristophanes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Frogs by Aristophanes. Read in English by a full cast. Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is dead, and Dionysus, the god of the theater, has to listen to third-rate poetry. So, he determines to pack his belongings onto his trusty slave, Xanthias, and journey to the underworld to bring back Euripides! Hi-jinks ensue. (Summary by Libby Gohn) Cast Dionysus: bala Xanthias/Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Aeschylus: Abe Nemon Euripides: Libby Gohn Heracles: Algy Pug Pluto: Alan Mapstone Charon: Eliot Gage Aeacus: Denny Sayers Corpse: Todd Maidservant: Amanda Friday Landlady: Availle Plathane: Marmalade Hanna Chorus of Frogs: Anastasiia Solokha Chorus of Initiates: mb Audio edited by Libby Gohn

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Frogs
• Author credits: Aristophanes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:42:02

Catalogue topics

• greek
• comedy
• aristophanes

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 53:53
2. 02 - Part 2 — 48:09

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