Euripides: Cyclops

This edition of the Greek text with English commentary of Euripides' "Cyclops," the earliest extant post-Homeric work of Ancient Greek Cyclops-themed literature, is the companion volume to "Ancient Greek Cyclops Tales." In addition to providing students with an introduction to Euripides' unusual dramatic work, the only surviving specimen of its genre (the satyr play), this commentary offers extensive grammatical and lexical assistance, with notes focusing on the drama's fifth-century Athenian cultural context as well as the thematic and intertextual connections with its source, "Odyssey" 9.105-566.

This edition of the Greek text with English commentary of Euripides' "Cyclops," the earliest extant post-Homeric work of Ancient Greek Cyclops-themed literature, is the companion volume to "Ancient Greek Cyclops Tales." In addition to providing students with an introduction to Euripides' unusual dramatic work, the only surviving specimen of its genre (the satyr play), this commentary offers extensive grammatical and lexical assistance, with notes focusing on the drama's fifth-century Athenian cultural context as well as the thematic and intertextual connections with its source, "Odyssey" 9.105-566.

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.

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.