Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"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. The first full commentary on the play in English for four decades ; provides extensive linguistic help for student readers in particular ; the Introduction and Commentary provide a detailed account of the play considering textual, linguistic, historical and literary issues."--taken from publisher web site.

Classical Greek literature --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) --- Euripides. --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) - Drama --- Euripides. - Cyclops

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Euripides’ Cyclops is presented here in a new prose translation that is faithful to the original text, accompanied by a detailed introduction on the author, the work, and historical context. The volume also includes an extensive linguistic and substantive commentary, which does not presuppose knowledge of the Greek language. In der Blütezeit der griechischen Tragödie musste jeder der drei Dramatiker, die an den Großen Dionysien, dem bedeutendsten Dionysosfest Athens, im Rahmen des Tragödienwettbewerbs um den Sieg kämpften, nicht nur drei Tragödien präsentieren, sondern auch ein heiteres Nachspiel, das nach den Satyrn, die immer den Chor bildeten, Satyrspiel hieß. Der Kyklops des Euripides ist das einzige vollständig erhaltene Exemplar dieser dramatischen Gattung. Das Stück behandelt die jedem Zuschauer aus der Odyssee wohlbekannte Begegnung des Odysseus mit dem Kyklopen Polyphem.

Euripides, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical --- E-books --- Cyclopes (Greek mythology) --- Polyphemus - (Cyclops) --- Odysseus, - King of Ithaca (Mythological character) --- Silenus - (Mythological character)