CLA232H1 Lecture : Euripides' Cyclopes
Document Summary
euripides" cyclopes, unlike oedipus and bacchants, examines not the relationship between the self and the gods but the self and beasts. cyclopes explores this distinction through quasi-human beasts. The dramatic festival, in honour of dionysus, took place for 3 days every spring in. Athens in the theatre of dionysus on acropolis. on each day, there would be 3 tragedies and a satyr play. The plays were very much embedded in the civic structure of the city (not only were they watched by the citizens, the playwrights would compete to perform at the city. Dionysia and a panel of citizen-judges would vote who was best, so the citizens got to choose what was played, etc. ) Tickets were subsidized, to allow poorer citizens to attend. Liturgies, paid by aristocrats, could be paid by funding the festival. The chorus was also made up of citizens. The actors would be professional, but the chorus was made up of normal citizens.
