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Cyclops and the Euripidean tetralogy

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Matthew Wright
Matthew Wright
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This article develops a suggestion which I made tentatively elsewhere: that Euripides' Cyclops was first produced in 412 BC, as part of a tetralogy which also included Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Given the paucity of the available evidence, it may be thought that there is little to be gained from further discussion of Euripidean production dates, or from yet more unprovable guesswork. Nevertheless, I think that it is worth raising the question of dating again, in order to explore a couple of related, and somewhat more interesting, subjects. First of all, there is the matter of the relationship between satyr-plays and the tragic trilogies with which they were produced. Secondly, this discussion may cast some new light on another old problem: the nature of Helen and other Euripidean plays whose generic status as ‘tragedies’ has often been doubted.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 52 , 2006, pp. 23 - 48
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