Two Satyr Plays – Euripides & Sophocles, tr. Roger Lancelyn Green. Penguin Classics

Two Satyr Plays: Euripides’ Cyclops & Sophocles’ Ichneutai

A new translation by Roger Lancelyn Green. The Penguin Classics. 

Part of E. V. Rieu’s celebrated Penguin Classics series — ‘A Library of Translations of the World’s Greatest Literature’ — this volume presents two rare examples of the satyr play, the bawdy, comic counterpart to Greek tragedy. Euripides’ Cyclops is the only complete satyr play to survive from antiquity; Sophocles’ Ichneutai (The Trackers) survives only in substantial fragments. Together they offer a vivid glimpse of a lost theatrical tradition.

Translated with characteristic clarity and readability by Roger Lancelyn Green, this is a scarce and collectible early Penguin Classics title in the distinctive brown and cream livery.

Publisher: Penguin Classics (The Penguin Classics, ed. E. V. Rieu)
Translator: Roger Lancelyn Green
Condition: Good — light wear to corners and spine consistent with age; binding sound, interior clean.