Cyclops and major fragments of Greek satyric drama
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Cyclops and major fragments of Greek satyric drama
（Classical texts）
Oxbow Books, c2013
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Parallel Ancient Greek text with English translation; introd. and commentary in English
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies.
Euripides'Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary - but not, so far, of Euripides himself.
This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.
Table of Contents
General Introduction
General Bibliography
Euripides'Cyclops
Critical Apparatus
/ CYCLOPS
Commentary
MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA
Introductory Note
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Advice to Readers
Bibliographical Guidance
Pratinas 4 F 3: Hyporchema
Aeschylus Glaucus the Sea-god (Glaucus Marinus)
Net-Fishers (Dictyulci)
Sacred Delegates or Isthmian Contestants (Theori or Isthmiastae)
Prometheus the Fire-Kindler (Prometheus Pyrkaeus)
Sisyphus the Runaway and/or Stone-Roller (Sisyphus Drapetes or Petrokulistes)
F 281a, b, *451n: from a'Justice' play
Sophocles Lovers of Achilles (Achillis Amatores)
Inachus
Trackers (Ichneutae)
Oeneus, F **1130
Euripides Autolycus A and B
Eurystheus
Sciron
Syleus
Ion of Chios 19 F 17a-33a, *59: Omphale
Achaeus I Selected shorter fragments, from The Games
(Ludi, 20 F 3-4), Aethon (F 6-11), Alcmeon (F 12-14),
Hephaestus (F 17), Linus (F 26), The Fates
(Fata, F 27-8), Omphale (F 33-4)
Critias (?) 43 F 19: from a'Sisyphus' play
Python 91 F 1: Agen
Sositheus 99 F 2-3: Daphnis or Lityerses
Lycophron 100 F 2-4: Menedemus
Anonymous Adespota F 646a
Adespota F 655: from an'Atlas' play
Adespota F 667a: from a'Medea' play
A new (2007) adespoton: satyric (?)
Appendix: summary details of some other satyr-plays, by Pratinas, Aeschylus, Aristias, Sophocles, Euripides, Astydamas II and Chaeremon
Index of Motifs and Characters
General Index
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