I will pay for the following essay Euripides' satyr play The Cyclops. The essay is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.Download file to see previous p

I will pay for the following essay Euripides' satyr play The Cyclops. The essay is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

That said, there are a few clues as to when this play was produced. It was most likely produced after 415 B.C., which was the year of The Trojan Women, because, in The Trojan Women, Odysseys had not yet had his trials and tribulations detailed in Cyclops. This is made clear by a speech made by Cassandra, and by the fact that Hecuba was set to become Odysseys’ slave in this play. However, it was most likely produced before 411 B.C., because this was the year that Lysistrata was produced. Lysistrata was a satire about the Peloponnesian War, and it was a light-hearted one at that. Producing a light-hearted satire would steal the thunder of a serious play which is meant as an allegory, when both plays are concerning the same war. Therefore, Euripides probably would not have produced Cyclops after Lysistrata. The most likely date for Cyclops is between the dates of 411 B.C. and 415 B.C., and this date is probably 413 B.C. According to Thucydides, this was the year that the Spartans attacked from Selinus. Since the name Selinus is very similar to Silenus, which was a major, added character in Cyclops, one can imagine that the word Selinus was on Euripides mind that year, which his why he added the character of Silenus into Cyclops. This paper will explain these points more fully, and comes to the conclusion that Cyclops was written in the year 413 B.C. for these reasons. The Evidence of When Cyclops Was Produced In this play, there are several events which can be used to discern the date that this play was written. At the start of the play, it makes reference to the fact that the play was set “not long after the Trojan War.” Odysseys lands to speak to Silenus, who is the main character in the play. Moreover, Silenus talks about the fact that he landed on the island of the Cyclops because he was chasing pirates who kidnapped Bacchus. Odysseys goes on to tell a Satyr that he had laid waste to the house of Priam. Another reference in the play is the fact that Helen had eloped with an interloper, and that was the reason why Odysseys was in Troy. So, these are the clues as to when the play was produced. The first reference which can be used is The Trojan Women, which can be found in the volume Ten Plays (Roche, 1998). In this play, which was produced in 415 BC, there are references made to similar events which are described in Cyclops. Namely, that Priam was killed. Also, in the play, there is a reference to the fact that Odysseys is the King of Ithaca, who was to take Hecuba as his slave (Roche, 1998, p. 181). The implication of this is that this play was set either before Cyclops or after Cyclops, for Odysseys is apparently not lost at sea at this point, as he was still the King of Ithaca, and, since he was able to take a slave, this would mean that he is well situated in Ithaca at the time that this play was produced. Furthermore, there is a reference to Helen. Specifically, there is a reference to Helen being a “fatal bride” to Agamemnon, who is referred to as “Achaeans’ noble king” (Roche, 1998, p. 183). There is further reference to Helen, and how the Greeks went chasing after her and perished in the thousands because of her.