Inner fire

panel from poetry and drama window: Small as a doodle below more elaborate scenes from classical literature, this line drawing recalls The Frogs, by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 b.c.). Produced the year after the death of Euripides, the play lampoons that writer for causing what Aristophanes saw as the decline of Greek tragedy. Among the speaking parts is, in fact, a “Chorus of Frogs,” who greet the god Dionysus with their croaking—“Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax.”