Euripides’ Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer’s Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just about satyr-drama, but also about the reception and adaptation of Homer in classical Athens; the brutal savagery of the Homeric monster is here replaced by an ironised presentation of Athenian social custom. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, and there is a sophisticated literary discussion of the play. This edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
Euripides: Cyclops
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SKU: 9781108399999
Categories: Comparative Literature, Humanities and Art
author | Rebecca Laemmle, Richard Hunter |
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year | 2020 |
publisher | Cambridge University Press |
binding | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781108399999 |
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