Peloponnesian League
J.T. Sheppard contends that the exiled general Alcibiades is a main focus of "The Frogs". At the time the play was written and produced, Athens was in dire straits in the war with the Peloponnesian League, and the people, Sheppard claims, would logically have Alcibiades on their minds. Sheppard quotes a segment of text from near the beginning of the parabasis: