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Euripides: Cyclops
C. Collard
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Description for Euripides: Cyclops
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908343352
SKU
V9781908343352
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About C. Collard
Patrick O'Sullivan is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and has published widely on Archaic and Classical literature, aesthetics and intellectual history. Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Swansea. He has published widely on tragedy and Euripides in particular. His work includes editions with commentary of Euripides, Suppliant Women (1975, 1984) and ... Read more
Reviews for Euripides: Cyclops
'This volume, in short, will be game-changing, … [it] marks a formidable work of scholarship in its own right, an accessible compilation of the genre’s remains and a spectacular addition to the teacher’s toolbox.' Journal of Hellenic Studies