Abstract
Abstract While historians of European culture are familiar with ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, they are unlikely to be well acquainted with the third ancient theatrical genre, satyr drama. Hundreds of satyr plays were produced, yet only Euripides’ Cyclops survives in its entirety, together with a substantial part of Sophocles’ Trackers (Ichneutae ).One of the few certainties about this enigmatic genre is that its gender orientation was more profoundly male than that of tragedy and comedy. Like them it was produced by male poets and performed by male actors, in front of an almost exclusively male audience. Yet unlike the choruses of tragedy and comedy, which could represent either females or males, the chorus of satyr drama by convention consisted of male satyrs with conspicuous phalluses.
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