The Cyclops

By Euripides

Euripides was one of the greatest Greek tragedians and is considered one of the most important figures in ancient literature.  Euripides is thought to have written close to 100 plays and almost 20 of them have survived.  This edition of The Cyclops includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781531283605

Euripides

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC to his mother, Cleito, and father, Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens. He had two disastrous marriages, and both his wives—Melite and Choerine (the latter bearing him three sons)—were unfaithful. He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. He became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education. The details of his death are uncertain.

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THE CYCLOPS

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Euripides

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Cyclops

Characters in the Play

SCENE: Before the great cave of the CYCLOPS at the foot of Mount Aetna.

THE CYCLOPS

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Translated by Edward P. Coleridge

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

SILENUS, old servant of the CYCLOPS

CHORUS OF SATYRS

ODYSSEUS

THE CYCLOPS

Companions of ODYSSEUS

SCENE: BEFORE THE GREAT CAVE OF THE CYCLOPS AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT AETNA.

(SILENUS enters. He has a rake with him, with which he cleans up the ground in front of the cave as he soliloquizes.)

SilenusO BROMIUS, unnumbered are the toils I bear because of thee, no less now than when I was young and hale; first, when thou wert driven mad by Hera and didst leave the mountain nymphs, thy nurses; next, when in battle with earth-born spearmen I stood beside thee on the right as squire, and slew Enceladus, smiting him full in the middle of his targe with my spear. Come, though, let me see; must I confess ’twas all a dream? No, by Zeus! since I really showed his spoils to the Bacchic god. And now am I enduring to the full a toil still worse than those. For when Hera sent forth a race of Tyrrhene pirates against thee, that thou mightest be smuggled far away, I, as soon as the news reached me, sailed in quest of thee with my children; and, taking the helm myself, I stood on the end of