Cyclops
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781108399999
- ISBN10 1108399991
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 278
- Sammlung Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2020
- Sprache Griechisch (Bis 1453)
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Cyclops
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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.