Euripides: Cyclops (9781108399999)
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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.
- Author:
- Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 06, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 278 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1108399991
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108399999