Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781108399999
- ISBN-10: 1108399991
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: July 2020
- Dimensions: 8.45 x 5.54 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 278
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