Cyclops

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(117 117 117 1)>As Odysseus begins to journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War he and his companions are blown off course to the mysterious Mount Etna. There they find a tribe of displaced satyrs who are enslaved by the violent and dangerous Cyclops. Odysseus will need the cunning and bravery that served him so effectively during the war to avoid being served himself to the hungry Cyclops. CYCLOPS the only satyr play to survive antiquity allows the master tragedian Euripides to display his skills at writing comedy in this broad and bawdy short play adapted from a sequence in Homer's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(117 117 117 1)>The Odyssey</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(117 117 117 1)>. This translation is crafted in rhymed verse to create a close approximation of the rhythms and poetry of the original Greek text.</span></p><p></p>