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Euripides: CyclopsCompanions to Greek and Roman Tragedy With its ribald chorus of ithyphallic, half man half horse creatures, satyr drama was a peculiar part of the Athenian theatrical experience. Performed three times each year after a trilogy of tragedies, it was an integral part of the 5th and 4th century City Dionysia, a large festival in honour of the god Dionysus. Euripides: Cyclops is the first book length study of this fascinating genre's only complete, extant

Benardete's original interpretations are the fruits of his discovery of the "argument of the action"

and offering many new interpretations of passages from familiar authors based upon a lexicographical approach

grows up hearing stories of gods and heroes

while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson

As the dramatic plot unfolds

keyed to the Penguin translation of Aubrey de Selincourt

the visual arts and film

and a typically Euripidean comment on the uncertain

lover and confidant

its main participants and its cultural and political milieu

corruption and violence that plagued Rome in the first century BC

the Art of Rhetoric held a far deeper purpose