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- Title
Sophistische Satyrn.
- Authors
Bernhardt, Jan
- Abstract
Since the discovery of the so-called Oineus fragment, which can with some certainty be attributed to Sophocles, it has been believed that the appearing Satyrs are a parody of the Sophists. This supposition has consequences for our understanding of the Satyr play: Usually, only Euripides' Cyclops is believed to include contemporary allusions, but a closer examination of further fragments besides the Oineus fragment yields the conclusion that comic effects based on similar allusions might have been a common and regular feature of Satyr plays. So my aim is firstly, after a brief discussion of the fragment, to prove that the Satyrs are in fact a parody of the Sophists; in a second step I will analyze the Cyclops and some further fragments for contemporary allusions and then compare them with the Oineus fragment, until I finally draw my conclusion with regard to the appropriate interpretation of the Satyr play.
- Subjects
SATYRS (Greek mythology); SATYR plays; SOPHISTS (Greek philosophy); SOPHOCLES, ca. 497 B.C.-406 B.C.; CYCLOPS (Play : Euripides)
- Publication
Mnemosyne, 2014, Vol 67, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0026-7074
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1163/1568525X-12341127