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Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama

Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama

Euripides
Collard, Christopher
O'Sullivan, Patrick

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 190834377X
ISBN13: 9781908343772
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 30 2013
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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