Euripides: Cyclops

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108399991
• ISBN13: 9781108399999
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"