Euripides: Cyclops (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316510513)

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.

Author: Richard Hunter
ISBN-10: 1316510514
ISBN-13: 9781316510513
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2020
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.67h x 5.62w x 0.73d