Euripides

Cyclops

278 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Antike
• ISBN: 9781316510513
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2020
• Größe: 220 x 143 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Rebecca Laemmle, Richard Hunter