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Euripides: Cyclops
C. Collard (Ed.)
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Description for Euripides: Cyclops
Paperback. Editor(s): Collard, C.; O'Sullivan, Patrick. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 148 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
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. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic ... Read more
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. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aris & Phillips United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Condition
New
Weight
699g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908343772
SKU
V9781908343772
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About C. Collard (Ed.)
Christopher Collard, Emeritus Professor of Classics, The Queen's College, Oxford, was formerly Professor of Classics at the University of Swansea until 1996. 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 ... Read more
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