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Euripides: Cyclops

Euripides: Cyclops

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Ancient History GeneralPlays

ISBN10: 1316510514
ISBN13: 9781316510513
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 2 2020
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.67
Language: English
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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