Euripides' Cyclops.

76 p. Einband weist minimale Gebrauchsspuren auf, sonst sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Binding shows minimal signs of usage, otherwise clean and without annotations. - Preface At the City Dionysia in Athens every year, three tragic playwrights presented three tragedies followed by a satyr-play seemingly intended to inject a bit of comic relief into the proceedings. Euripides' Cyclops is the sole surviving complete example of the latter genre, although ancient scholarly comments inform us that Alcestis was a "pro-satyric" play (i.e., performed in place of a satyr-play) and substantial fragments of Sophocles' Ichneutai have been preserved in a papyrus. Cyclops is undated but probably belongs near the end of Euripides' career, perhaps in 408 BC; see Seaford, JHS 102 (1982) 170-2. The standard modern commentary on the play is R. A. S. Seaford (ed.), Euripides: Cyclops (Oxford, 1988), which contains a wealth of information on the genre and its history. My text and commentary have been substantially influenced by Seaford's work; where my debts to him are most substantial, I have attempted to signal this by adding "(S)" at the end of my notes. Cyclops has recently been reedited and translated by David Kovacs (ed.), Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea, Loeb Classical Library L12 (Cambridge, Mass., 1994), a number of whose conjectures I have adopted. Because Cyclops is short, amusing, and relatively easy to read, I have been more generous with vocabulary than is normal in this series in hope of making the play accessible to students with relatively limited Greek. More advanced readers may find some glosses that strike them as obvious, and I apologize in advance for any inconvenience or annoyance this may cause them. The great majority of this commentary was completed either in the library of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, or at the University of Minnesota. It is a particular pleasure to be able to offer Professor Zeph Stewart belated thanks for his kindness in allowing me access to the CHS collection at a time when no other major research library was available to me. Eleanor Dickey and Richard Hamilton offered comments on an earlier draft of this commentary, and I would like to acknowledge their assistance and support as well. ISBN 9780929524917