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Frogs

The Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote an ancient Greek play named Frogs. This comedy was produced sometime in 405 BC.

The play centers upon the decline of great tragedians, for many of them have died. The god Dionysos decides to travel to Hades, then, to retrieve the deceased Euripides, the last of the great tragedians, back to the living.

Closer to the end play, Nyx is spoken of during a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides. Dionysos has finally found Euripides but finds he challenged Aeschylus for the seat of the best poet of tragedy. Thus, the contest required them to quote verses from their plays to Dionysos. Aeschylus is the one who speaks of her.

"Oh dark-shining night's (Nyx)
gloom, what woeful dream
do you send to me, from unseen Hades'
vestibules, possessing a soulless
soul, child
of black night (Nyx), hair-raising horrible
sight, black-corpse-shrouded, murder, murder
envisioning, with long fingernails?"

Book sources:
Aristophanes. Frogs. English Translation by Matthew Dillon. 1995.

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