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Athletics in Satyric Drama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2012

DAVID M. PRITCHARD
Affiliation:
DAVID M. PRITCHARD is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. [email protected]

Extract

Satyric drama introduced athletics much more regularly as an activity than either comedy or tragedy. Many of its villains defeated hapless travellers in a boxing or wrestling bout before murdering them. Satyr-plays were often set at athletic contests where the satyrs of the chorus encountered athletes or tried to be competitors themselves. In one of his plays Euripides provided the most detailed critique of athletes in any genre of classical Athenian literature.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 2012

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