Greek Tragedy XXX: Euripides’s The Cyclops, or The Last Satyr… Play

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Tragedy, The Greeks

We’ve studied comedies. We’ve studied tragedies. But there was a third man… I mean type of play in Ancient Greece. Today we cover the only surviving Satyr Play.

Discussion Prompts
  1. AP Credit: Compare/Contrast Homer’s The Odyssey with Euripides’s The Cyclops.
  2. What do you think about the changes Euripides makes to the story of Odysseus and Polyphemos?
  3. Why do you think this is the only satyr play that has survived the ages?
  4. If you were writing a satyr play, what serious story would you retell, only with satyrs?

Published by Triumvir Clio

I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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