PHILOSOPHY GROUP OUTING: ARISTOPHANES’ THE FROGS

How often do we get a chance to see a 2,400-year-old Greek comedy performed live—and discover that it is still funny, irreverent, and philosophically provocative?

I’m planning a group outing to see **Aristophanes’ *The Frogs*** at CSU Bakersfield on **Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 PM**.

Written in 405 BCE, *The Frogs* sends the god Dionysus on a wonderfully absurd journey into the Underworld in search of a great poet who might save Athens. Once there, he encounters **Aeschylus and Euripides competing over which of them is the greater tragedian—and, more importantly, what poetry and theater should contribute to society.**

Behind the comedy are questions that remain remarkably alive:

**What is art for?**

**What responsibility does the artist have to society?**

**Can a culture in crisis be transformed by changing how it understands itself?**

**And what happens when radically different ways of disclosing the world compete for authority?**

This should be especially enjoyable for us because