Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama

by Patrick O'Sullivan (Editor), C. Collard (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908343772
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2013
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Patrick O'Sullivan is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and has published widely on Archaic and Classical literature, aesthetics and intellectual history.

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Swansea. He has published widely on tragedy and Euripides in particular. His work includes editions with commentary of Euripides, Suppliant Women (1975, 1984) and Hecuba (1991), and he is co-editor of Selected Fragmentary Plays of Euripides (1995, 2004) and Iphigenia at Aulis (2017). He was General Editor of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series from 2007-2016.

Table of Contents

General Introduction
General Bibliography

Euripides'Cyclops
Critical Apparatus
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ/ CYCLOPS
Commentary

MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA
Introductory Note
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Advice to Readers
Bibliographical Guidance
Pratinas 4 F 3: Hyporchema

Aeschylus Glaucus the Sea-god (Glaucus Marinus)
Net-Fishers (Dictyulci)
Sacred Delegates or Isthmian Contestants (Theori or Isthmiastae)
Prometheus the Fire-Kindler (Prometheus Pyrkaeus)
Sisyphus the Runaway and/or Stone-Roller (Sisyphus Drapetes or Petrokulistes)
F 281a, b, *451n: from a'Justice' play

Sophocles Lovers of Achilles (Achillis Amatores)
Inachus
Trackers (Ichneutae)
Oeneus, F **1130

Euripides Autolycus A and B
Eurystheus
Sciron
Syleus
Ion of Chios 19 F 17a-33a, *59: Omphale

Achaeus I Selected shorter fragments, from The Games
(Ludi, 20 F 3-4), Aethon (F 6-11), Alcmeon (F 12-14),
Hephaestus (F 17), Linus (F 26), The Fates
(Fata, F 27-8), Omphale (F 33-4)

Critias (?) 43 F 19: from a'Si

Editorial Reviews

"This volume, in short, will be game-changing,... [it] marks a formidable work of scholarship in its own right, an accessible compilation of the genre's remains and a spectacular addition to the teacher's toolbox."
Journal of Hellenic Studies

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