Euripides: Cyclops

& Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama

Bibliographic Data

ID23540356
AuthorsEuripides Euripides
EditorsPatrick O'Sullivan, Christopher Collard
Year2013
Pages528
Publication date2013-09-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEuripides (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/liverpool/9781908343352.001.0001
OpenAlexW4205706918
Open LibraryOL28770634M
ISBN9781908343352
LanguageEN
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Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and, according to Aristotle, formative for tragedy. By the 5th century BC at Athens, it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them. Euripides' Cyclops is the only satyr play which survives complete. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary — but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This book provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.

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