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16 Satyric Friendship in Euripides’ Cyclops

  • Patrick O’Sullivan
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Reconstructing Satyr Drama
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© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Editors’ Preface VII
  3. Contents XV
  4. List of Figures XIX
  5. List of Abbreviations and References XXVII
  6. List of Metrical Symbols XXIX
  7. Author Biographies XXXI
  8. Introduction: What is Satyr Drama? 1
  9. Part I: Genre
  10. 1 Satyrikon and the Origins of Tragedy 39
  11. 2 Putting the ‘Goat’ into ‘Goat-song’: The Conceptualisation of Satyrs on Stage and in Scholarship 59
  12. 3 Satyr Drama, Dithyramb, and Anodoi 81
  13. 4 Urban Centre and Mountainous Periphery in Dionysiac Drama 101
  14. Part II: Language, Style and Metre
  15. 5 ΔιαλαλΗσωμΕν τι σοι: ʻColloquialisms’ in Satyr Drama 115
  16. 6 Im/Politeness in Satyr Drama 141
  17. 7 Satyrs Speaking like Rhetors and Sophists 175
  18. 8 Metre, Movement and Dance in Satyr Drama 195
  19. Part III: Text Transmission and Criticism
  20. 9 Ancient Scholarship on Satyr Drama: The Background of Quotations in Athenaeus, Lexicographers, Grammarians, and Scholia 229
  21. 10 Distinguishing Satyric from Tragic Fragments: Methodological Tools and Practical Results 253
  22. 11 Eight and Counting: New Insights on the Number and Early Transmission of Euripides’ Satyr Dramas 283
  23. 12 Some Notes on Euripides’ Cyclops 303
  24. 13 Thundering Polyphemus: Euripides, Cyclops 320–8 323
  25. Part IV: Reflections on the Plays
  26. 14 Pratinas and Euripides: Wild Origins, Choral Self-Reference and Performative Release of Dionysian Energy in Satyr Drama 337
  27. 15 Sacrificial Feasts and Euripides’ Cyclops: Between Comedy and Tragedy? 361
  28. 16 Satyric Friendship in Euripides’ Cyclops 375
  29. 17 Baby-Boomer: Silenos Paidotrophos in Aeschylus’ Diktyoulkoi 395
  30. 18 The Riddles of Aeschylus’ Theoroi or Isthmiastai 409
  31. 19 Silenos on the Strange Behaviour of the Satyrs: The Case of Sophocles’ Ichneutai 433
  32. 20 The Invention of the Lyre in Sophocles’ Ichneutai 449
  33. 21 Satyrs in Drag: Transvestism in Ion’s Omphale and Elsewhere 455
  34. 22 Innovation and Self-promotion in Fourth-century Satyr Drama: The Cases of Chaeremon and Astydamas 477
  35. 23 Satyr Drama at a Crossroads: Plays from the Early Hellenistic Period 495
  36. Part V: Satyric Influences
  37. 24 Plato and the Elusive Satyr (Meta)Drama 519
  38. 25 Traces of Satyr Dramas in the Mythographic Tradition: The Case of Pseudo-Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca 539
  39. 26 Satyrising Cynics in the Roman Empire 567
  40. Part VI: The Archaeological Evidence
  41. 27 Images of Satyrs and the Reception of Satyr Drama-Performances in Athenian and South Italian Vase-Painting 587
  42. 28 Heads or Tails? Satyrs, Komasts, and Dance in Black-Figure Vase-Painting 637
  43. 29 Satyrs, Dolphins, Dithyramb, and Drama 669
  44. 30 Sex, Love, and Marriage in Dionysiac Myth, Cultural Theory, and Satyr Drama 695
  45. 31 When does a Satyr become a Satyr? Examining Satyr Children in Athenian Vase-Painting 717
  46. 32 Beyond the Pronomos Vase: Papposilenos on Apulian Vases 735
  47. 33 Satyr Drama in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods: An Epigraphical Perspective 749
  48. 34 Lowering the Curtain: (Modest) Satyrs on Stage in the Roman Empire 765
  49. Appendix
  50. Bibliography 799
  51. General Index 861
  52. Index Locorum 871
  53. Index Vasorum 875
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