# The Frogs — Aesop's Fables character guide

> The Frogs in Aesop's Fables by Aesop.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** The Frogs, the Frogs, Frog, The Frog, the Frog

**First appearance:** 0022-the-boys-and-the-frogs

## Snapshot

A chorus of pond-dwellers whose restless complaints and reckless petitions for change invite tyrants far worse than the quiet lives they abandoned.

## Who they are

The Frogs live at the water's edge, a community quick to grumble about their lot and quicker to demand a king to rule them. Their dissatisfaction is comic and tragic at once: what they want is order, but what they get, again and again, is a stork or a serpent with an appetite. Their fables form one of the collection's sharpest meditations on the cost of ungrateful discontent.

## In the story

### [The Boys and the Frogs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-boys-and-the-frogs)

Victims of the boys' cruel sport; one frog speaks out to plead for their lives.

### [The Hares and the Frogs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-hares-and-the-frogs)

The Frogs, startled by the Hares' approach, leap into the water, revealing their own timidity.

### [The Frogs’ Complaint Against the Sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-frogs-complaint-against-the-sun)

They complain to Jupiter about the Sun's impending marriage.

### [The Quack Frog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-quack-frog)

The Frog who falsely proclaims himself a physician.

### [The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-mouse-the-frog-and-the-hawk)

Ties himself to the Mouse, drags him into the water, and is ultimately eaten by the Hawk due to the binding.

### [The Frogs Asking for a King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-frogs-asking-for-a-king)

Discontented frogs who petition Jupiter for a king and are punished for their folly.

### [The Ox and the Frog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-ox-and-the-frog)

Two little frogs play at the pool's edge; one is crushed by the ox. The mother frog, in her grief and pride, attempts to inflate herself to match the ox's size and bursts.

### [The Two Frogs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-two-frogs)

Two frogs are neighbors; one lives in a marsh, the other in a lane.

### [The Frogs and the Well](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-frogs-and-the-well)

Two frogs who lose their marsh home and consider moving into a well.

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