Lycurgeia

The Lycurgeia (

M.L. West has proposed that it culminated in the acceptance of the cult of Dionysus in Thrace.^[2] The satyr play was named Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος, Lykoûrgos) after the king and might have presented his attempt to domesticate the satyrs, civilizing their bestial nature and forcing them to perform at his feasts in "honour not of Dionysus, but of himself and Ares."^[3]

Notes

^ The following synopsis largely follows Gantz (1980) 140–41.
^ West (1990) 46–47.
^ Sommerstein (2009) 127.

Bibliography

Gantz, T. (1980) "The Aischylean Tetralogy: Attested and Conjectured Groups", The American Journal of Philology 101: 133–64.
Sommerstein, A. (2009) Aeschylus III: Fragments, Loeb Classical Library no. 505 (Cambridge, MA).
ISBN 978-0-674-99629-8
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West, M.L. (1990) Studies in Aeschylus (Stuttgart)

[1] The following synopsis largely follows Gantz (1980) 140–41.

[2] West (1990) 46–47.

[3] Sommerstein (2009) 127.

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v t e Plays by Aeschylus
Tetralogies	Achilleis Danaid Tetralogy Lycurgeia Oedipodea Oresteia (including Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides and fragmentary Proteus) Prometheia
Extant plays	The Persians Seven Against Thebes The Suppliants Prometheus Bound (authorship disputed)
Fragmentary plays	Philoctetes Prometheus Unbound Prometheus the Fire-Bringer
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