Euripides: Cyclops
- ISBN-10
- 1108399991
- ISBN-13
- 9781108399999
- Series
- Euripides
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-30
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle
Description
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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