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A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
The frogs, disorganized and directionless, asked the god Jupiter for a king. So the gods threw down a log into the water. This log king was amiable and supported the frogs in their lounging. The young frogs, knowing nothing but the time of the log, sat upon the log and croaked to Jupiter about theirs woes with the government.
The combat between the Frogs and the Mice (Batrachomyomachia) was a mock epic, commonly attributed to Homer, though in fact a parody of his Iliad. [8] [9] [10] The Frogs Who Desired a King is a fable, attributed to Aesop. The Frogs prayed to Zeus asking for a King. Zeus set up a log to be their monarch.
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Ribbit King is a 2003 sports video game developed by Infinity and Jamsworks and published by Bandai for the GameCube [1] and PlayStation 2. [2] The game is based on the fictional sport of Frolf (ケロフ), which is a golf -like game that is played with frogs .
Shevelove first wrote and directed an adaptation of The Frogs in 1971, while he was a graduate student at Yale University.According to Mary-Kay Gamel, "His central production concept involved Charon and Dionysos rowing across the Exhibition Pool in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, while the Frogs, played by members of the Yale swimming team, swam around the boat."
The Frogs blame their King, who altogether denies the incident. In the meantime, Zeus , seeing the brewing war, proposes that the gods take sides, and specifically that Athena help the Mice. Athena refuses, saying that the Mice have done her a lot of mischief, as have the Frogs, and that it would be more prudent for the gods to watch rather ...
Xanthias of The Frogs defies the convention of slaves introduced in earlier works by Aristophanes. In The Knights, The Wasps, and Peace, slaves fulfill two functions: they introduce the situation at the beginning of the play and they provide comedic relief by being threatened or frightened. [2]