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The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

Greek drama (Satyr play) --- Satyric drama, Greek --- Dionysia --- Greek drama

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Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still, however, among the most debated problems of Classical scholarship. A cornerstone of the question is its relationship to Christianity, which modern authors have too often discussed from apologetic perspectives or projections of the Christian model into its supposed precedent. Besides, modern approaches are strongly based on ancient ones, since Orpheus and the poems and mysteries attributed to him were fundamental in the religious controversies of Late Antiquity. Both Pagan and Christian authors often present Orphism as a precedent, alternative or imitation of Chistianity.This free and thorough study of the ancient sources sheds light on these controversial questions. The presence of the Orphic tradition in Imperial Age, documented by literary and epigraphical evidence, is confronted with the informations transmitted by Christian apologists on Orphic poems and cults. The manifold Christian treatments of Pagan sources, and their particular value to understand Greek religion, are illuminated by this specific case, which exemplifies the complex encounter between Classical culture and Jewish-Christian tradition.

Christianity and other religions --- Dionysia. --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Dionysus. --- Orpheus. --- Orphism (Religion). --- Reception (Religion).

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"The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod's Theogony and Parmenides' poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology"--

Dionysia --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Derveni papyrus. --- Greece --- Religion. --- Dionysia. --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Conservation and restoration. --- Greece. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Conservatie. Restauratie --- Klassieke Griekse letterkunde --- Handschriften. Epigrafie. Paleografie --- papyrologie --- Conservation. Restoration --- Classical Greek literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- papyrology

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Greek drama (Satyr play) --- Drame satirique grec --- Criticism, Textual --- Critique textuelle --- -Satyric drama, Greek --- Dionysia --- Greek drama --- Criticism, Textual. --- -Criticism, Textual --- Greek drama (Satyr play). --- Satyric drama, Greek

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Classical Greek literature --- Drama --- Greek drama (Satyr play) --- Drame satirique grec --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- -Satyric drama, Greek --- Dionysia --- Greek drama --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Satyric drama, Greek --- Greek drama (Satyr play) - History and criticism