![]() ![]() Sings for Dionysus while he takes Charon's boat across the Styx, jesting and teasing with their rambunctious croaking and singing. While Euripides mocks him as stentorian and verbose, Dionysus finds his verse more traditional, sagacious, and necessary to help Athens in their time of need, and thus brings him back to the world above. ![]() The renowned tragic poet who engages in a contest with Euripides to see who holds the chair of honor next to Pluto. Aeschylus criticizes him for wanton verse and witty but decadent intellectualism. Euripides was a tragic poet who often wrote of the common people. The recently deceased poet whom Dionysus originally intends to bring back from the underworld. The god of the underworld and husband of Persephone, Pluto calls the contest between poets and allows the winner to return to Athens. Speaks with Xanthias about how he criticizes his master behind his back, and gives information about the upcoming contest between Aeschylus and Euripides. PlathaneĪnother female innkeeper in Hades who dislikes Heracles for his bad behavior when he traveled there. The woman who runs the inn in Hades he dislikes Heracles for his behavior on his visit there. Thinking Heracles has arrived at Pluto's house, she invites him in for Persephone's meal and dancing girls. The doorman of Pluto's house in Hades he hates Heracles for stealing Cerberus and thus tries to torture Dionysus and Xanthias when they are disguised as Heracles. The ferryman on the river Styx in the play he takes Dionysus across the lake to Hades. Heracles's past deeds there are vilified by Aeacus and the innkeepers. Heracles in this play provides Dionysus with advice on traveling to the underworld. The famous son of Zeus who completed the Twelve Labors. The keen-witted and ambitious slave of Dionysus, Xanthias likes to complain about and compete with his master. He is cocky but cowardly, self-seeking and crass. ![]() The god of both wine and ecstatic mystical religion, Dionysus is the protagonist of the play, first seeking to travel to Hades to bring back a poet of wise counsel to help Athens, and then judging the poetic contest between Euripides and Aeschylus. ![]()
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