Dionysus descends into the underworld in order to retrieve a “skillful poet”, originally with the intention of bringing the deceased Euripides back to life. Aristophanic comedy, although it takes contemporary political life as its point of departure, is not political in the sense of aiming to influence politics outside the theatre. In the sense that this conclusion throws light on the democracy’s exercise of control over the theatre the problem of political intent in Aristophanic comedy remains obstinately difficult to evade. To understand Aristophanes’ plays, therefore, we must ask about the reception with a view to which they were composed; and this will inevitably raise in turn the question of political intent. The multifarious god Dionysus as the protagonist in the "Frogs" of Aristophanes develops as a comic hero character in the context of impasse between political and aesthetic issues. Dionysus as an entity cannot be separated from the range of aspects, levels of meaning, and functions which were attached to his mythic, ritual, and cultic counterpart. The contest between Aeschylus and Euripides in Hades, with Dionysus as judge, who decides to choose Aeschylus reflects the contemporary political aspect in Aristophanes'' Athens.