Euripides

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.