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WHAT DOES SATYR PLAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Satyr play

Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque. They featured choruses of satyrs, were based on Greek mythology, and were rife with mock drunkenness, brazen sexuality, pranks, sight gags, and general merriment. Satyric drama was one of the three varieties of Athenian drama, the other two being tragedy and comedy. It can be traced back to Pratinas of Phlius, c. 500 BC. After settling in Athens, he probably adapted the dithyramb, customary in his native home, with its chorus of satyrs, to complement the form of tragedy which had been recently invented in Athens. It met with approval and was further developed by his son Aristeas, by Choerilus, by Aeschylus, and others. In the Athenian Dionysia, each playwright customarily entered four plays into the competition: three tragedies and one satyr play to be performed either at the end of the festival or between the second and third tragedies of a trilogy, as a spirited entertainment, a comic relief to break the oppression of hours of gloomy, fatalistic, formulaic tragedy. They were short, half the duration of a tragedy.

Definition of satyr play in the English dictionary

The definition of satyr play in the dictionary is a ribald play with a chorus of satyrs, presented at the Dionysian festival.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SATYR PLAY

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Passion play
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Translation of «satyr play» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

色狼玩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

drama satírico
570 millions of speakers

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satyr play
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऐयाश खेलने
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

شبق اللعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сатир игра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sátiro jogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Satire খেলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jeu satyre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bermain satyr
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Translator English - German

Satyrspiel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サテュロス劇
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

버스가 재생
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Satyr play
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chơi thần rừng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சீற்ற நாடகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सॅटार प्ले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Satyr oyun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

satiro gioco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

satyr gra
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Сатир гра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

satir joc
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σάτυρος παιχνίδι
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

sater speel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

satyr lek
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

satyr spill
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SATYR PLAY»

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A Handbook of Classical Drama
A SATYR-PLAY (Possibly about 423 B.C.) Since there is no information concerning the original production of this play, and since this is the only complete satyr-play preserved, no very reliable criteria exist for dating it.107 Its comments on the ...
Philip Whaley Harsh, 1944
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Horace for Students of Literature: The "Ars Poetica" and Its ...
Lines 2.2.0-50: Satyr Play The discussion of music is followed by a summary of the rise of the Satyr Play from village festivals. Aristotle includes some of the same details in Poetics IV. The etymology of "tragedy" is tragos ("goat") and ode ...
O. B. Hardison, Leon Golden, 1995
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The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context
Satyr-play is obviously more closely related to tragedy than comedy is: the standard tetralogy of plays contributed by each of the three tragic competitors at the Dionysia consisted of three tragedies followed by a satyr-play, and the satyr- play ...
Donald J. Mastronarde, 2010
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, ...
Although Sositheus is best known as a reviver of the classical mythological satyr play, perhaps in response to the rise of bucolic poetry (cf. Dioscorides' epigram Anth. Pal. 7.707), a satyr play ridiculing the philosopher Cleanthes is probably ...
P. E. Easterling, Bernard M. W. Knox, 1989
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A Companion to Greek Tragedy
Satyr-play shares with comedy a preference for the comic representation of commonplace situations, activities, desires, and anxieties; it does not, however, present these realistically in a way that mirrors the daily life of the audience, but at a ...
Justina Gregory, 2008
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The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Satyrs are typically found in the company of the wine god DIONYSUS. A satyr named SILENUS was often called the father of these creatures. In the SATYR PLAY, satyrs usually made up the chorus. [ANCIENT SOURCES : Euripides, Cyclops; ...
John E. Thorburn, 2005
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Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama
This is the first book to offer a complete, integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama, analyzing the details of the many literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and geographical connections to satyr drama.
Carl Shaw, 2014
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A Companion to Sophocles
but in the satyr play Cyllene nurtures the baby god (ll. 270 ff.). Further, according to the hymn, the cattle are hidden in a cave near Pylos, on the river Alpheios (ll. 139, 398), whereas Hermes hides on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia (ll. 142, 228).
Kirk Ormand, 2012
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The Cyclops
"The Cyclops" dramatizes one of the most recognizable episodes from Homer's "Odyssey". It is not one of Euripides' most famous works, however, it is the only complete preserved satyr play from ancient Greece.
Euripides, 2004
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Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
For the fifth century, actually, it is not clear in what sense satyr-play was valued. Though certain satyrographers (Pratinas, Aeschylus) were apparently esteemed within their own genre, there is only the presumption that the institutional ...
Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello, Mario Tel-, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SATYR PLAY»

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Aspen Opera Theater Center stages 'The Classical Style' and 'The …
The source is one of the few existing bits of evidence of a satyr play, a light entertainment, usually involving a half-man half-horse creature, the sort of thing ... «Aspen Times, Jul 15»
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Plus500: close but not closed
With the recent Eurogroup satyr play in between the tragedy of successive Greek bailouts returning attention to the future of the Eurozone, Plus500 throws one of ... «FT Alphaville, Jul 15»
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French Farts, Erections and Rhyming Verse: THE HEIR APPARENT …
In ancient Greece, the Satyr Plays lay somewhere between the ever-popular comedies and tragedies. These early forms of farcical-satire took well-known, ... «Long Beach Post, Jul 15»
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Happy Healthy YOU
The theatre portion of ancient Greece transcended to consist of three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. The origins of theatre dating to ... «Tillsonburg News, Jul 15»
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THEATER REVIEW | St. Croix Off Broadway Dinner Theatre goes …
Aristotle described three primary forms of theatre in his Poetics: comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play. Although the mediums, varieties, and forms of theatre have ... «Twin Cities Daily Planet, Dec 14»
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'Drunk Shakespeare' theater review; 2.5 stars
Perhaps the troupe can rotate the Shakespeare play being parodied with ... of the burlesque-style satyr play that would follow a trilogy of Greek tragedies. «amNY, May 14»
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Comedy Issue: Tenacious D's Kyle Gass On Guitar Licks & Laughs
If you went back to the ancient Greek satyr plays, I bet you they were playing some kind of janglies. Court jesters? They were definitely getting jingly and jangly. «Billboard, May 14»
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How Is LA's Top Experimental Theater Company Like a Cult?
... "conveniently is exactly how long it takes to master every play ever written." ... an ancient satyr play; and Dionysia, which extended Satyr's thematic scope to a ... «LA Weekly, Mar 14»
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The Stoppard play that won't stop enthralling
Loosely based on an ancient Greek satyr play, one of its themes seemed to be that ordinary people today were being deliberately excluded from cultural ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»
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Satire and Satyr At Epidaurus
The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived antiquity. It is a comical burlesque-like play on the same ... «Greek Reporter, Aug 13»

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