History Main / SatyrPlay

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->'''Prometheus''': Like the goat, you’ll mourn for your beard, you will.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one complete example of this genre, ''Theatre/{{Cyclops}}'' by Creator/{{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''Theatre/TheTrackingSatyrs'' by Creator/{{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one complete example of this genre, ''Theatre/{{Cyclops}}'' by Creator/{{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by Creator/{{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one complete example of this genre, ''Theatre/{{Cyclops}}'' by Creator/{{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by Creator/{{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater. Squat all to do with satire plays.

* BlackComedy: Pretty much the entire point of this genre, from what we can tell.
** The story of the cyclops is about a cannibalistic monster getting stabbed in the eye with a tree trunk. ''The Cyclops'' manages to make it funny.

* ValuesDissonance: The surviving fragment of one of Aeschylus' satyr plays, ''Net-Draggers'', has a scene where an infant Perseus masturbates a satyr. It may have been considered funny at the time, but now it comes across as pedophilia.
** The Cyclops features several jokes about rape.

* BlackComedy: The story of the cyclops is about a cannibalistic monster getting stabbed in the eye with a tree trunk. ''The Cyclops'' manages to make it funny.
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So, after each tragic trilogy, the selected playwright would conclude things with a satyr play. A satyr play was a ridiculous, partially tragic, partially comic parody (or ''satire'', though our word satire does not come from this root) of a popular legend. They were loaded with sex, drunkenness, and black comedy. The satyr chorus were notorious for their costumes, which featured [[GagPenis comically large penises]]. The leader of the satyrs was their father, the elderly and put-upon Silenus, whose part was played by the Chorus Leader.

So, after each tragic trilogy, the selected playwright would conclude things with a satyr play. A satyr play was a ridiculous, partially tragic, partially comic parody (or ''satire'', though our word satire does not come from this root) of a popular legend. They were loaded with sex, drunkenness, and black comedy. The satyr chorus were notorious for their costumes, which featured comically large penises. The leader of the satyrs was their father, the elderly and put-upon Silenus, whose part was played by the Chorus Leader.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one complete example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by Creator/{{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by Creator/{{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater. Squat all to do with satire plays.

A ForgottenTrope of the Roman Empire.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by Creator/{{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by Creator/{{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater. Squat all to do with satire plays.

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%%* GagPenis
%%* {{Gonk}}: The satyr costumes.

%%** The Cyclops features several jokes about rape.

* CrossesTheLineTwice
* EyeScream
* GagPenis
* {{Gonk}}: The satyr costumes.
* {{Squick}}

** The Cyclops features several jokes about rape.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by {{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by {{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theater. Squat all to do with satire plays.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by {{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by {{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Further details of the genre can be pieced together from Athenian vase paintings showing the costumes and paraphernalia of the theatre. Squat all to do with satire plays.

* {{Gonk}}: The satyr costumes

* ValuesDissonance: The surviving fragment of one of Aeschylus' Satyr Plays has a scene where an infant Perseus is allowed to masturbate a satyr. It may have been considered funny at the time, but now it comes across as pedophilia.

Theater in Athens worked differently than theater today. Plays were performed in a competition at the annual City Dionysia festival. Each playwright would write three tragedies, linked by theme and performed one after another. Understandably, six hours of bloodshed, torment, and woe had a way of depressing the audience.

So, after each tragic trilogy, the selected playwright would conclude things with a satyr play. A satyr play was a ridiculous, partially tragic, partially comic parody (or ''satire'', though our word satire does not come from this root) of a popular legend. They were loaded with sex, drunkenness, and black comedy. The satyr chorus were notorious for their costume, which featured large penises.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by {{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by {{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments. Squat all to do with satire plays.

So, after each tragic trilogy, the selected playwright would conclude things with a satyr play. A satyr play was a ridiculous, partially tragic, partially comic parody (or ''satire'') of a popular legend. They were loaded with sex, drunkenness, and black comedy. The satyr chorus were notorious for their costume, which featured large penises.

The Romans didn't borrow this tradition from the Greeks, and the satyr plays didn't fare too well as the years went on. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by {{Euripides}}, survives. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by {{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments.

** There might be a ShoutOut to that in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where, in one episode, the kids made a game of masturbating dogs ("Red Rocket," they called it). Or it might just be that StrangeMindsThinkAlike.

** There might be a ShoutOut to that in ''SouthPark'', where, in one episode, the kids made a game of masturbating dogs ("Red Rocket," they called it). Or it might just be that StrangeMindsThinkAlike.

* RefugeInVulgarity

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* BlackComedy: The story of the cyclops is about a cannibalistic monster getting stabbed with a tree trunk in his eye. ''The Cyclops'' manages to make it funny.

So, after each tragic trilogy, the selected playwright would conclude things with a satyr play. A satyr play was a ridiculous, partially tragic, partially comic parody of a popular legend. They were loaded with sex, drunkenness, and black comedy. The satyr chorus were notorious for their costume, which featured large penises.

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Most satyr plays were parodies of older stories. The Cyclops is a retelling of the episode involving Odysseus and the titular monster from {{The Odyssey}}.

Theater in Athens worked differently than theater today. They were performed in a competition at the annual City Dionysia festival. Each playwright would write three tragedies, linked by theme and performed one after another. Understandably, six hours of bloodshed, torment, and woe had a way of depressing the audience.

The Satyr Play was a uniquely Athenian genre of theater. Only one example of this genre, ''The Cyclops'' by {{Euripides}}, survives mostly intact. However, another play, ''The Tracking Satyrs'' by {{Sophocles}}, has a large number of surviving fragments.

*ValuesDissonance: The surviving fragment of one of Æschylus' Satyr Plays has a scene where an infant Perseus is allowed to masturbate a satyr. It may have been considered funny at the time, but now it comes across as pedophilia.
*YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Most satyr plays were taken from older stories.