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Euripides’ Cyclops

Euripides’ Cyclops. Primitive Sophistication. Agenda. Euripides’ Cyclops What do you Think? Introduction to Satyr Drama What, When, Why, How Euripides’ Cyclops Production, Myth Cyclops : Frivolous or Serious? plus Agon Pages 23–5 What Would Plato Say? What Would You Say Back?.

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Euripides’ Cyclops

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  1. Euripides’ Cyclops Primitive Sophistication

  2. Agenda • Euripides’ Cyclops • What do you Think? • Introduction to Satyr Drama • What, When, Why, How • Euripides’ Cyclops • Production, Myth • Cyclops: Frivolous or Serious? • plus Agon Pages 23–5 • What Would Plato Say? • What Would You Say Back?

  3. Euripides’ Cyclops What do you Think?

  4. To Characters Odysseus Cyclops Silenus Satyrs To Humor cannibalism sexuality Helen “When you took that woman, did you all take turns?”(Satyr Coryphaeus, p. 19) Silenos, Cyclops “It’s a bitter wine I’ll have to drink now”(Silenos p. 36) Cyclops: Your Reactions … How different from tragedy/comedy?

  5. Cyclops: Your Reactions … • more fun to read • adventure • mythological parody • liked • relationship between c s strange • sexual humor • toilet humor • farts

  6. Introduction to Satyr Drama What, When, Why, How

  7. Satyr / Silenos • rustic • pleasure-addicted • divine-immortal • Dionysus’ retinue Satyr with pipes and holder,Athenian cup, Epiktetoscirca 510 BCE

  8. Dionysus with Satyrs,Athenian cup (“Brygos painter”)circa 510 BCE

  9. Satyr Drama: Origins • Dionysian • komos • thiasos • 533 BCE (ca.) tragedy • Late 500s, satyr drama Return of Dionysus

  10. Humor, theme, treatment profanity sexuality paratragedy topicality? Satyr Drama: Elements Structure • earlier satyr drama • loose, agitated • “tragic” Cyclops (late 400s) • prologue • parodos • 4 episodes • one with agon • stasimon choral interludes • off-stage “killing” scene (656 ff.) • exodos

  11. “Pronomos Vase”late 400s BCE Athenian(Naples Museum)

  12. Satyr choreuts (chorus members) Coryphaeus (chorus leader) Playwright Demetrius

  13. Dionysus and Ariadne Queen-character Heracles Himeros (= Eros) (Pappo)silenos Charinus (kithara player) Pronomos (piper) King-character

  14. Euripides’ Cyclops Production, Myth

  15. Production • Composed • post 411 • Produced • ca. 408 • Tetralogy ? • Prize ? Actor playing Silenus in a satyr drama (from Pronomos Vase)

  16. Italy Troy Greece Ithaca Lydians Aetna Sicily Athens

  17. Mount Aetna from Taormina, by Thomas Cole (1844)

  18. Odysseus and men blinding Cyclops(archaic vase painting)

  19. Blinding of Cyclops, with Satyrs (circa 413)

  20. Cyclops: Frivolous or Serious? plus Agon Pages 23–5

  21. Political Resonances ODYSSEUS Where are the walls and city-towers? SILENUS This is no city, No man inhabits here. ODYSSEUS Who does inhabit it? Wild animals? SILENUS The Cyclopes. They live in caves, not houses. ODYSSEUS Who governs them? Or do the people rule? SILENUS They are savages. There is no government.

  22. Odysseus crafty intelligent resourceful Cyclops stupid barbaric naive Odysseus and Cyclops: Traditional Treatment

  23. Odysseus crafty intelligent resourceful Cyclops atheist relativist egoist-sophist … in Agon in Cyclops “Forget this sacrilege and do what is right. Many have paid the price for base profits.” “To eat, to drink from day to day, to have no worries—that’s the real Zeus for your clever man.”

  24. What Would Plato Say? What Would You Say Back?

  25. Plato say? foolish imitation doesn’t like that c speaks ill of z or other impieties Plato would like punishment part Plato would criticize the “for a woman” exemplifies value of good government wouldn’t like it – violates hierarchy the war thing – Cyclops oversimplifies Plato would not want debate the symbolism perhaps above our heads the ugly representing the ugly you say back? meant to be entertainment i’m up to it doing it to survive goes with the tragedy thing validates tragedy more generally agrees with the Helen thing What would…

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