Euripides: Cyclops (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Cambridge University Press, 7/2/2020
EAN 9781108399999, ISBN10: 1108399991

Paperback, 278 pages, 21 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in 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.

Introduction
Sigla
ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ ΚΥΚΛΩΨ
Commentary