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The Cyclops is one of the few surviving satyr plays from ancient Greece, and this translation by E. P. Coleridge brings Euripides' work to life for modern readers. The play tells the story of Odysseus and his crew as they encounter the Cyclops Polyphemus. The lively and witty dialogue makes this an entertaining read, while the themes of heroism, cleverness, and vengeance continue to resonate with audiences today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Cyclops is a satyr play written in ancient & medieval times by Euripides of Athens. Euripides' Cyclops is the only complete Greek satyr play known to have survived antiquity. Euripides' Cyclops is a comical burlesque-like play. This satyr play offers a comic antidote to the Greek tragedies.
A new translation of Cyclops, a Satyr play by Euripides. Cyclops is the only Satyr play to have survived in full. The Satyr plays took as their theme a well-known mythological story: here, the story is of Odysseus' encounter with the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Satyrs and their elderly leader, Silenus (whose sole desire is to spend an easy life honouring Bacchus with wine and pursuing nymphs) are introduced into the story, the Satyrs forming the chorus. In Cyclops, Silenus and his satyrs have already come into contact with Polyphemus and been enslaved by him. The Satyrs were not heroic, but are always ready to join in witty repartee - from a safe distance. Silenus provides much of the humour, derived in large measure from his insatiable desire for alcohol. The play follows the traditional storyline and reaches the traditional conclusion - with the escape of Odysseus and the remnants of his crew, accompanied in this case by the joyful Silenus and his Satyrs.
The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived antiquity. It is a comical burlesque-like play on the same story depicted in book nine of Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus has lost his way on the voyage home from the Trojan War. He and his hungry crew make a stop in Sicily at Mount Aetna, which is inhabited by Cyclopes. They come upon the Satyrs and their father Silenus, who have been separated from their godDionysus and enslaved by a Cyclops (named Polyphemus in the Odyssey). These characters are not contained in the Odyssey's version of the event. Their addition provides much of the humor due to their cowardly and drunken behavior.
The Cyclops / Euripides; translated by E.P. Coleridge.
In der Blütezeit der griechischen Tragödie musste jeder der drei Dramatiker, die an den Großen Dionysien, dem bedeutendsten Dionysosfest Athens, im Rahmen des Tragödienwettbewerbs um den Sieg kämpften, nicht nur drei Tragödien präsentieren, sondern auch ein heiteres Nachspiel, das nach den Satyrn, die immer den Chor bildeten, Satyrspiel hieß. Der Kyklops des Euripides ist das einzige vollständig erhaltene Exemplar dieser dramatischen Gattung. Das Stück behandelt die jedem Zuschauer aus der Odyssee wohlbekannte Begegnung des Odysseus mit dem Kyklopen Polyphem.
"Hellenistic and Byzantine sources place Euripides' birth either in 485/4, also the year of Aeschylus' first victory, or more usually in 480/79, the year of the Greek victory at Salamis; the explicit synchronicity with other significant events in Athenian dramatic and political history enjoins caution, but neither date is inherently implausible and neither is likely to be very far wrong. We are also told that Euripides first competed in the tragic contest in 455 and won his first victory in 442/1. Biographical sources report that, late in life (probably 407), he accepted an invitation to the court of King Archelaos in Macedonia, and he died there after a relatively brief stay; modern scholarship is divided as to the credit to be given to these accounts. At any event, Aristophanes' Frogs, produced at the Lenaian festival in winter 405, suggests that Euripides' death was very recent, as was Sophocles' (406). The Bacchae and the Iphigeneia at Aulis appear to have been staged posthumously in Athens by Euripides' son.The Frogs also attests to Euripides' stature as a tragic poet, as does an ancient anecdote that, after news of Euripides' death, Sophocles appeared at the next ceremonial proagōn (presumably in 406) dressed in a dark cloak of mourning, his actors and choreuts did not wear garlands as was normal, and this scene caused the people to weep. The preserved information, which will go back eventually to the public dramatic records or didaskaliai, that Euripides was granted a chorus, i.e. allowed to compete in the dramatic contests, twenty-two times between 455 and his move to Macedonia, confirms his public stature. It is much harder to know what conclusions to draw from the fact that during his life he won first prize only on four occasions (Sophocles had eighteen victories at the City Dionysia), particularly as dramatists were judged not for single plays but for a group of three tragedies and a satyr-play ('tetralogies'). What we can say, however, is that a great deal of evidence points to the ever-increasing popularity and influence of his dramas after his death, both in reperformances all over the Greek world and as texts to be read; as the very significant number of papyri of otherwise lost plays of Euripides attests, the fourth century and beyond was the real period of his 'victory'."--
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