What is it about?
Satyrs as characters use to be described as silly people, featured by their lack of education. Their language proves exactly the opposite view, since they are presented as learned rhetors.
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Why is it important?
Satyr drama has to do with politics and polis.
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This is a part of our studies on the literary language of the dramatic genres.
Mr Jordi Redondo
Universitat de Valencia
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This page is a summary of: 7 Satyrs Speaking like Rhetors and Sophists, June 2021, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110725230-008.
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