... , including Cyclops. Cyclops is the only complete satyr play to have survived, yet the characteristics of the satyr play are based upon Odysseus" encounter with the Cyclops, Pollyphenus, in the ninth book of "The Odyssey." The "Chorus of Saytrs" and the characters of "The Silenus" are Euripides" innovations, but the events of the play see no other great changes in the Homeric version. It is important ... the author to seek distance this account from his own narration by in effect making it a poem within a poem. It is unlikely, for example, that an unsophisticated audience in an age that ...

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