by Sófocles, Eurípides · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474107579
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«El Ciclop / Els Sàtirs Rastrejadors» brings together two satyr plays by Euripides and Sophocles (La Magrana, 2000, paperback, 94 pp., Catalan).
«El Ciclop» recreates with humorous tone the Homeric episode of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus; «Els Sàtirs Rastrejadors» presents the search for the herd that the newborn Hermes steals from Apollo. Both pieces are examples of satyr drama, the genre the Greeks called «tragedy in jest»: known myths treated with irony and comedy.
Volume 11 of the Clàssics Grècia i Ro series, with introduction, translation and notes by Ramon Torné.
For readers of classical theatre and Greek mythology who want to discover satyr drama.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
