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A full literary and linguistic commentary, suitable for advanced students, on the only surviving Athenian satyr-play.
List of contents
Introduction; Sigla; ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿; Commentary
About the author
RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1978, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has taught at several American universities, including Princeton and the University of Virginia, and lectures in the United States and Europe regularly. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge 2009), (with Donald Russell) Plutarch, How to Study Poetry (Cambridge 2011), Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge 2012), Hesiodic Voices (Cambridge 2014), Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Book IV (Cambridge 2015), and The Measure of Homer (Cambridge 2018). Many of his essays have been collected in the two-volume On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008). He has edited the Journal of Hellenic Studies and is on the editorial board of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge Classical Studies and several European journals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds honorary degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Ioannina, is a Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Athens and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.REBECCA LAEMMLE is a University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. She previously taught at the University of Basel, Switzerland and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Her doctoral thesis won the Heidelberger Förderpreis für Klassisch-Philologische Theoriebildung and the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize of the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2011 and was subsequently published as Poetik des Satyrspiels (2013). She has published widely on ancient literature and its reception.
Summary
Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact and brilliantly dramatises the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. This full literary and linguistic commentary on the play is suitable for both advanced students and scholars.
