Euripides

The Cyclops (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrated by Onésimo Colavidas
Illustrator: Colavidas, Onésimo / Übersetzer: Coleridge, Edward Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Cyclops" by Euripides, illustrated by Onésimo Colavidas

The Cyclops is the only surviving satirical drama by Euripides, a fifth-century BC. poet in Greece. Euripides interprets a passage from Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus, also known as Ulysses, fights against the giant Polyphemus.

Odysseus' ship runs aground on the island of Etna, which is inhabited by the Cyclops, a one-eyed creature. In this place, Odysseus and his men meet Silenus and his sons, imprisoned to serve the Cyclops called Polyphemus. Polyphemus feeds on meat, goat's milk and cheese, but he is also an anthropophagous monster. He can therefore eat Ulysses and his men at any time during a feast.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: FV éditions
• Seitenzahl: 58
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791029914546
• Artikelnr.: 67306409

Autorenporträt

Euripides (Ancient Greek: ) (ca. 480 BC406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. It is now widely believed that what was thought to be a nineteenth, Rhesus, was probably not by Euripides. Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because of the chance preservation of a manuscript that was probably part of a complete collection of his works in alphabetical order.