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	Satyr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The symbol of the shy and timid satyr was the hare.
		Satyrs might also be associated with the attendants of the rustic spirit Pan, called the Panes.
		However, the role of a child in Greek art might imply a further meaning for baby satyrs - Eros, the son of Aphrodite, is consistently represented as a child or baby, and Bacchus, the divine sponsor of satyrs, is seen in numerous works as a baby, often in the company of the satyrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satyr (1313 words)

	Satyr play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of comedy, similar to the modern-day burlesque style.
		Satyric drama was one of the three varieties of Athenian drama (the others two being tragedy and comedy).
		The seriousness of the preceding plays was thus relieved, while the chorus of Satyrs and Sileni, the companions of Dionysos, served to indicate the original connexion between that divinity and the drama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satyr_play (465 words)

	Weingut Lingenfelder Estate - Satyr and Encyclopedia
		Satyrs and Sileni were at first represented as uncouth men, each with a horse's tail and ears and an erect phallus, and they later came to be represented as men having a goat's legs and tail.
		From the 5th century BC the name Silenus was applied to Dionysus' foster father, which thus aided the gradual absorption of the Satyrs and Sileni into the Dionysiac cult.
		The satyrs were the companions of Dionysus, god of wine, and spent their time pursuing nymphs, drinking wine, dancing, and playing the syrinx, flute, or bagpipes.
	www.lingenfelder.com /our_wines/satyr_encyclopedia.htm (311 words)

	Satyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Greek mythology, Satyrs (Satyri) are half-man half-beast nature spirits that haunted the woods and mountains andndash the companions of Pan and Dionysus.
		Roman satyrs were confounded in the popular and poetic imagination with Latin spirits of woodland, the Fauns.
		However, the role of a child in Greek art might imply a further meaning for baby satyrs - Cupid, the son of Aphrodite, is consistently represented as a child or baby, and Bacchus, the divine sponsor of satyrs, is seen in numerous works as a baby, often in the company of the satyrs.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Satyr (1409 words)

	Satyrs and Satyr Plays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Satyrs are horse-men, drunken, lustful, and not very smart.
		Satyr plays were associated with tragedy; the fourth play in a tragedian's entry at the City Dionysia was a satyr play.
		This vase, from about 450 BC, shows a satyr, a maenad, and a woman; it might be a scene from a satyr play.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /~amahoney/satyrs.html (232 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.11.05
		Among the losses that wasted the corpus of ancient Greek literature, the disappearance of nearly the entire corpus of satyr plays is a cause of particular sorrow.
		The connection with tragedy runs deep, for these plays are written by the tragic poets, using subjects drawn from myth, and they share in whole or in part the structural elements, language and meter, actors and stage conventions of tragedy.
		Satyrs are not creatures of the polis; they represent the survival of a prepolitical world in which culture itself is still coming into being, they precede (and thus transcend) the division of tragic and comic, and they bridge the gap between gods and mortals.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-11-05.html (1707 words)

	Theatre Essay: Scholars and Satyrs, the link between satyr plays & "tragedy," by Alex Gross - - - -
		A chorus of raucous satyrs, wearing long leather phalluses, formed the chorus of the satyr plays, and certain liberties were taken which would never, scholars maintain, have been allowed in tragedy.
		His two Greek editions of the satyr play, containing what is believed to be the complete text, do the problem the barest justice, burying it in equivocal footnotes accessible and comprehensible to only the most persistent of scholars.
		In a fragment of the Dictyulci, a satyr play by Aeschylus, Silenus offers his phallus to the infant Perseus as a plaything to caress and suck, and there are other indications that the phalluses worn by the satyrs may have had onstage functions.
	language.home.sprynet.com /theatdex/satyrs.htm (7116 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.23
		CP properly aligns satyr play more closely with tragedy than with comedy but tends like most scholars to be troubled by references to current events or persons and by the use of coarse language, especially in 4th-century and Hellenistic plays considered possibly to be satyric.
		CP notes not only that satyr play distanced itself somewhat in the 4th century by sometimes being produced apart from tragedy but also that, with its references to contemporary events and persons, it came to resemble comedy.
		CP thinks it is probably satyric because of the unusual number of resolutions in comparison with Agathon's other fragments and because the decipherment of the letters might represent the satyric topos of puzzle solving.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-23.html (2053 words)

	308 Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays, Classical Drama and Theatre
		In essence, satyr plays constituted a good, early attempt at comic theatre, which ran its course brightly but rapidly and over time was replaced with a more successful type, or rather types, of dramatic comedy.
		All in all, the remote origin of the satyr play stands, like that of tragedy, on the horizon of history, and though we hold tantalizing clues as to its birth and role in early theatre, there is little definite that can be said.
		The earliest known playwright of satyr plays is Pratinas—also a tragic poet as discussed above (see Chapter 7)—whom some scholars have suggested was, in fact, the inventor of the satyr play, at least in the form it was popularized later in the fifth century.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/081earlygkcom.htm (5796 words)

	intro21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The satyr play, despite its chorus of sexually rambunctious satyrs and playful action, was closely associated with tragedy.
		Satyrs are anthropomorphic woodland spirits with horse's ears and tail and an erect phallus.
		There is a report that Sophocles played the title role in his Nausicaa (now lost) and made a big hit with his ballplaying (Nausicaa, the Phaeacian princess in the Odyssey was playing ball with her friends when she came upon the shipwrecked Odysseus).
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/tragedy/intro21.htm (626 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The play was done essentially in mime, with a chorus calling out the names of the main characters as they entered, for the audience' information.
		The play was faithful to the bawdy tone of satyr plays, with many vulgar jokes - my favourite was the suggestion, hilariously acted out, that Polybus and Merope's failure to have children came of total sexual ignorance.
		The play served the double function of giving the audience a taste of satyr drama, and giving them the story of Oedipus, so that they could watch the tragedy with about as much information at their disposal as the Athenian audience would have had.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/vol4no1/bowmana.html (1954 words)

	Didaskalia - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The satyr play itself was quite funny and informative to the unititiated.
		The satyr play seems to have influenced the interpretations of the Nurse (Rachel C. Hsieh), the Messenger (Christian Dives), and Lichas (Alfred Lawrence Smith), who were all played for laughs.
		McCaugherty's answer was to have Herakles (played by Robert Scott Smith) carried in on a litter, then to upend the litter so that the hero is almost standing in the center of the stage, but still to have him stayed fixed to the litter.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /Reviews/98101201.html (1392 words)

	Tracey Sanders ACU
		A chorus of satyrs whose predominant function was to satirise the seriousness of the tragic plays by parodying gods, heroes, tragic dances, actions, conventions of acting, costumes and scenery.
		Satyrs wore goatskin loincloths with a phallus in the front and a horsetail at the rear.
		Some wore masks with fixed features and in the early satyr plays, the masks were not large.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /staffhome/trsanders/units/comedy/greek_satyr.html (838 words)

	City Dionysia
		In many ways the satyr play revealed deeper mysteries than the tragedies or comedies; it was the most ancient mystery play (predating the tragedies and comedies, which developed from it).
		More common in the satyr play than in tragedy was the dance figure known as "peering" or the "owl dance," in which the chorus looked around as though searching for something - part of the message of the satyr play.
		The plays were also a focus for political and social debate; the plays (especially the comedies) were laced with allusions to contemporary issues and were a stimulus for discussion following the festival.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/Classes/US210/City-Dionysia.html (3352 words)

	RETURN OF THE SATYR PLAY
		The satyr play took the themes of the winning tragedy at the City Dionysia and twisted them from the sublime to the ridiculous.
		Even more than the play, which is silly yet serviceable, it is the players’ own energy, their hard work, their devotion both to their craft and to pleasing an audience, that is rewarding.
		The satyrs are hustling all the way, working up a sweat, running laps around the Hipp, running the stairs, popping in and out of the aisles like pelvic thrusts.
	www.afn.org /~afn31294/batboy.html (704 words)

	Satyr play -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Satyr plays were an (The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire) ancient Greek form of comedy, similar to the modern-day (A theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)) burlesque style.
		The only satyr play to survive in its entirety is (One of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC)) Euripides' Cyclops.
		Scholars also have large fragments of a (One of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)) Sophocles comedy called Ichneutae (Tracking Satyrs), and still smaller pieces of other satyr plays exist.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/satyr_play.htm (147 words)

	ipedia.com: The Oresteia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays, although the fourth satyr play that would have been performed with it has not survived.
		The play opens to Clytemnestra awaiting the return of her husband, having seen the sign that Troy had fallen.
		The play ends with the death of Clytemnestra and the knowledge that the Furies will begin to haunt and torture Orestes for his crime.
	www.ipedia.com /the_oresteia.html (646 words)

	Tragedy Notes
		In some plays there was a device like a crane that could deliver an actor/dummy from the air, which we call "deus ex machina." Euripides used it a lot at the end of his plays.
		The reason why we have the plays that we do is that they were selected by schoolteachers of later ages as those that were appropriate for students to read and they were anthologized.
		It is not clear whether the play is meant to be a serious reflection on how greatness falls or a reenactment of Athens' glory at the expense of the Persians.
	www.uvm.edu /~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/tragedyintro.html (1524 words)

	Greek Drama
		Three types of drama were composed in Athens: tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays, the latter of which seemed not to be taken quite as seriously, at least during the Greek Enlightenment (450-400).
		The choruses are not simply interludes, but often vital for understanding the play; the chorus is not simply a spectator or commentator, but often a direct participant in the action.
		In the early plays of Aeschylus there were only two actors; by about 450 B.C., a third had been added; all were men, taking several parts each if necessary.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/GREECE/DRAMA.HTM (797 words)

	THEA 131 - Introduction to Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the 120 plays attributed to Sophocles, seven complete tragedies and fragments of one satyr play still exist.
		[A satyr play was a burlesque play which followed and commented on tragic trilogies in the dramatic competitions at the City Dionysia.] These plays are: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus [these three are a trilogy, although they were not performed as such], Ajax, The Trachiniae, Electra, and Philoctetes.
		As secretary, he made a number of changes in the way plays were performed in the dramatic competition: changed the chorus from 12 to 15 men and added the third actor.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/cfrederic/OedipusNotes.htm (609 words)

	Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Drama continued to have the religious character of the dithyramb, inasmuch as it was always performed during the festival in honour of Dionysus.
		In the satyr play, furthermore, the dancers played satyrs, the god's companion's.
		The episodes are the dramatic part of the play par excellence, containing conflict between characters and moving the action forward.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/drama.htm (1688 words)

	Gregory W
		In this sequence the chorus of Panhellenes extracts Eirene from her subterranean enclosure thereby reproducing a visual and thematic moment well attested in the evidence for satyr-play, namely, the discovery (“birth”) of Pandora and her extraction by a chorus of satyrs.
		Before considering the satyric aspects of Aristophanes’ Anodos scene it is important to inspect the apparent “firewall,” in the realm of poetics and intertexuality that separates comedy and satyr-play.
		First I review all references to satyrs and satyric drama in the comic fragments and the extant plays.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/Dobrov.html (342 words)

	84.02.03: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first section of the play ends with Oedipus’ resolve to search out and punish the murderer and with his command that the Thebans be summoned before him, a nice motivation for the appearance of the chorus.
		As a short story, the events of the play may have to be rearranged, specific scenery may have to be described, and new characters may have to be introduced.
		The subject of the play is Oedipus’ discovery of his identity and his consequent realization that he has slain his father and married his mother.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.03.x.html (9335 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - satyr play
		Satyrs, in Greek mythology, deities of the woods and mountains, with horns and tails and sometimes with the legs of a goat.
		A number of ancient texts suggest that dramatic performances in ancient Egypt celebrated royal coronations and major religious holidays.
		Writing a play gives you the opportunity to let your imagination soar—freedom some students love and others find intimidating.
	encarta.msn.com /satyr+play.html (122 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Porter summarizes the discussion of this vexed matter and concludes, rightly, that the play as a whole should not be classified as satyr-play.
		Tragedy and melodrama (of which satyr-play is a rowdy species) look at the same action-and-retaliation plot from opposite standpoints, respectively from that of the person who offends the gods and is punished (tragic) and from that of the offended god--for example, the endangered god Dionysus himself in the persecution myths (melodramatic) (3).
		In the prologue-scene she enters from the palace and exits to Clytemnestra's tomb without a word; in the satyric second part of the play she speaks a few lines that characterize her deftly.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/supplement1/Castellani.html (2719 words)

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