The History Of European Theatre Hunt, Grenfell and the Satyr Play
Bonus Episode 36:
Sometimes things conspire against the podcaster, as has happened to me in the last couple of weeks, meaning that I have not been able to get the promised episode up to scratch in time. To make up for this and fill the gap I have created an episode that goes back to Greek theatre. It looks at that most mysterious of the ancient Greek forms, the satyr play and two of the men who were instrumental in vastly increasing our knowledge of these things.
The place of the satyr play in the history of Ancient Greek theatre
The satyr play as part of the Dionysia festival
The satyr play as a counterpoint to tragedy
The later history of the satyr play
‘Cyclops’ by Euripides
The discovery of ‘Trackers’ by Sophocles
The paperologists Hunt and Grenfell
The finds at Oxyrhincus
Arthur Hunt’s speech to the Egyptian Exploration Society
(including the plot of Trackers)
The Hypsipyle tragedy by Euripides, also in the Oxyrhincus finds
The Bacchae as a satyr play
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