Book Details
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.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Euripides / Hunter, Richard / Laemmle, Rebecca
- ISBN13 9781108399999
- ISBN10 1108399991
- Pages 278
- Collection Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #
- Published 2020
- Language Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
Cyclops
- Author Euripides , Richard Hunter , Rebecca Laemmle
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9781108399999
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