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Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama (Hardcover)
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Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
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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, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being
considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it
burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised
and performed in the tragedies. Euripides'Cyclops is the only
satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the
poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable.
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
volume 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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