Supposedly recovering from the Battle of Arginusae, Dionysus and his slave Xanthias travel to Hades to rescue Euripides.
A character in this work is forced to walk around a lake, upon which he teases his master by claiming that he ran into a blood sucking succubus named Empusa. This play opens with two characters, one in his traditional yellow robe and buskin, who is later mistaken for Heracles and his servant riding in on a donkey arguing about which complaints to use to open the play comically. Supposedly recovering from the Battle of Arginusae, Dionysus and his slave Xanthias travel to Hades to rescue Euripides. While rowing Dionysus hears a constantly repeating chorus of "Brekekekex-Coax-Coax" in, for 10 points, this play which features that chorus of the title animals, a comedy by Aristophanes.
A character in this work is forced to walk around a lake, upon which he teases his master by claiming that he ran into a blood sucking succubus named Empusa.
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